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MASTER CLASSES

To apply for admission, submit a brief statement to the course coordinator in which you describe your background (including department and year of study) and your interest in the course. Please be sure to include your telephone number and e-mail address. Your statement must be received no later than April 30. E-mail submissions are welcome.

May 15 - 19, 2006

Late Medieval Latin Script
(Albert Derolez, Curator Emeritus of Special Collections in the Universiteitsbibiotheek Gent; Professor Emeritus of Palaeography and Codicology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles)

May 22 - 26, 2006

Shakespeare and the Book
(Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania)

Coordinator for both classes is Robert Babcock, Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts.
robert.babcock@yale.edu or at 203-432-2968


May 2005

Late Medieval Latin Script
(Albert Derolez, Professor Emeritus of Palaeography and Codicology
at the Université Libre de Bruxelles; President of the Comité
International de Paléographie Latine)

Milton and the Book
(Stephen B. Dobranski, Professor of Renaissance Literature and Textual Studies at the Georgia State University)

May 2004

The Italian Book and Renaissance Drama
(Louise George Clubb, Professor Emerita of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley)

Editing Debussy
(Denis Herlin, CNRS in Paris)

Pictures as Primary Sources for American History
(Martha Sandweiss, Amherst College)

Interpretive Acts: Theory and Practice in the Scholarly Editing of Literary Texts
(Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Oxford University & Fordham University)

May 2003

Composing Italian Opera
(Philip Gossett, University of Chicago)

Manuscripts and Meaning: Reading the Primary Sources of Tudor and Stuart England
(David Scott, History of Parliament Trust)

Maps as Historical Tools
(Barbara McCorkle, former curator of the Yale University map collection)

History of the Book
(John Barnard, retired Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds)

March / May 2002

Reading Prints and Graphic Images, 1740-1840
(Brian E. Maidment, University of Salford)

Pictures as Primary Sources for American History
(Martha Sandweiss, Amherst College)

Bibliographical Description and Scholarly Editing
(G. Thomas Tanselle, Guggenheim Foundation)

March / May 2001

Approaches to Biography
(Hermione Lee, University of Oxford)

The Material Culture of American Photography
(Peter Palmquist, David Plowden, Richard Benson)

Interrogating Manuscript Sources of Tudor and Stuart Britain
(David Scott)

March / May 2000

Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts
(Adam Gacek, McGill University)

Late Medieval Latin Scripts
(Albert Delorez, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Bibliographical Description and Scholarly Editing
(G. Thomas Tanselle, Guggenheim Foundation)

Scribal Culture: Scribal Treason
(Harold Love, Monash University)

Introduction to Greek Manuscripts
(Mervin Dilts, New York University)

Italian Family Archives: The Spinelli Collection
(Carol Bresnahan Menning, University of Toledo)

May 10-21, 1999

Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts
(Adam Gacek, McGill University)

Bibliographical Description and Scholarly Editing
(G. Thomas Tanselle, Guggenheim Foundation)

Pictures as Primary Sources for American History
(Martha A. Sandweiss, Amherst College)

Late Medieval Latin Scripts
(Albert Delorez, université libre de Bruxelles)

May 1998

Pictures as Primary Sources for American History
(Martha A. Sandweiss, Amherst College)

Introduction to Greek Papyri
(Roger S. Bagnall, Columbia University)

Spring 1997

Coptic Documentary Papyri
(Terry Wilfong, University of Michigan & Sarah Clackson, Cambridge University)

March 1994

Renaissance Italian Documents
(Gino Corti)

   
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