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  "textContent": "We have word of The Fine Script, a conference exploring comparative approaches to legal marginalia circulating in Europe and the Middle East between 1100 and 1700, will be held on Monday, August 31 and Tuesday, September 1, from 10 AM-3:30 PM. The conference will\" connect the present with the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period—placing Ireland within Europe, and Europe in its relationship with the Middle East and the Byzantine Sphere.\" It can be attended in-person in Paris at the Centre Culturel Irlandais or online (the zoom link will be circulated via email prior to the event).\n\n--Dan Ernst. Schedule after the jump.\n\nWelcome and introduction ‘Reading the Fine Script’\nHéléna D.M. Lagréou (University College Dublin)\n\n10:20 AM\nThe toolbox: functional marginalia between visual and written rhetoric\nEachiarn Erbnen (University College Dublin), Maria Alessandra Bilotta (UAb – IEM-NOVA/FCSH)\n\nEachiarn Erbnen (University College Dublin), ‘Marginalia in the Copy of O’Davoren’s Glossary from TCD MS 1317 (H2.15b): Types and Choices’ Maria Alessandra Bilotta (UAb – IEM-NOVA/FCSH), ‘Law in the Margins: Annotating and Visualising Legal Knowledge in Illuminated Legal Manuscripts from Southern France (13th–14th Centuries)’\n\n11:40 AM\nCoffee Break\n\n12:00 PM\nScribes as editors: processing and transforming legal material\nStefan Drechsler (University of Bergen), Andrew Ó Donnghaile (University College Dublin)\n\nStefan Drechsler (University of Bergen), ‘The Marginal Notes of AM 309 fol.: Indications of Use, Textual Development, and Codicological Units’ Andrew Ó Donnghaile (University College Dublin), ‘? diultaim iat, mar aderid in drong dligthe-so sis: the voices of scribes and jurists in late medieval Irish legal manuscripts’\n\n01:20 PM\nLunch Break\n\n02:30 PM\nAggregating building blocks: movable knowledge across manuscripts\nJesús R. Velasco (Yale University), Gero Dolezalek (University of Leipzig)\n\nJesús R. Velasco (Yale University), ‘Glossing as a Model Kit’ Gero Dolezalek (University of Leipzig), ‘Cross References, added to Western Manuscripts of Roman Law’\n\n03:50 PM\nCoffee Break\n\n04:10 PM\nOverlapping spaces: coexisting environments within the page\nGeoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge), Sarah White (University of Nottingham)\n\nGeoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge), ‘Writing on the Verso of Medieval Arabic Documents’ Sarah White (University of Nottingham), ‘Between Text and Practice: Marginalia in English Manuscripts of the Ordines’\n\n05:30 PM\nApéritif Dinatoire\n\n09:30 AM\nMorning Coffee\n\n09:50 AM\nShort Welcome and introduction\nHéléna D.M. Lagréou (University College Dublin)\n\n10:10 AM\nDialogue in time: temporal layers in search of authority through marginalia\nZachary Chitwood (University LMU Munchen), Jaqueline Bremmer (University KU Leuven)\n\nZachary Chitwood (University LMU Munchen), ‘Digital Approaches to Editing the Hexabiblos of Constantine Harmenopoulos (1345) and Its Scholia’ Jaqueline Bremmer (University KU Leuven), ‘Constructing legal authority in the glossed Digestum vetus, c. 1200–1300’\n\n11:30 AM\nCoffee Break\n\n11:50 AM\nThe poetics of law: artificiality of legal writing in genre-bending marginalia\nChantal Kobel (Maynooth University), Fangzhe Qiu (University College Dublin)\n\nChantal Kobel (Maynooth University), ‘Do fubhtad borb ? aineolech ‘to frighten off the rude and ignorant’: erudition in the margins of Copenhagen MS 261B’ Fangzhe Qiu (University College Dublin), ‘More than just a rann: marginal verses in Irish legal manuscripts’\n\n01:10 PM\nLunch Break\n\n02:30 PM\nClosing Panel - Legal coexistence\nYasmine Beale-Rivaya (Texas State University)\n\nYasmine Beale-Rivaya (Texas State University), ‘Writing Authority in the Margins: Marginalia, Orality, and Multilingual Legal Culture in Medieval Iberia’\n\n03:10 PM\nClosing Remarks and send off",
  "title": "The Fine Script: Legal Marginalia, 1100-1700",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-13T04:30:00.112Z"
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