{"id":12707,"date":"2017-11-06T15:27:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/event\/arna-magnussonar-fyrirlestur\/"},"modified":"2017-11-07T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T15:55:24","slug":"arna-magnussonar-fyrirlestur","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/arna-magnussonar-fyrirlestur\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u00c1rni Magn\u00fasson lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u00c1rna Magn\u00fasson lecture will be on his birthday, for the fifth time, November 13th at 5 pm<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Marjorie Curry Woods: Emotions Between the Lines<\/h2>\n

Why I love Ugly Manuscripts<\/h2>\n

When I met the director of rare books and manuscripts at Princeton University, I asked him if his collection had any\u00a0medieval manuscripts of classical\u00a0texts. He replied, \u201cOnly ugly ones.\u201d \u201cGreat,\u201d I responded. \u201cThat\u2019s the kind I work on.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ll explain what both he and I meant by ugly manuscripts and\u00a0what we can learn from them. These are not the\u00a0beautiful, illuminated codices written on exquisite parchment that were produced for secular courts or\u00a0ecclesiastical\u00a0dignitaries. They are instead functional volumes written on scraps of parchment or paper that were produced in\u00a0greater and greater\u00a0numbers for schools and universities\u2014that is, for those studying, rather than perusing, texts. I\u2019ll\u00a0be drawing on my recent work on manuscripts of\u00a0classical texts (Virgil\u2019s Aeneid, the Achilleid\u00a0of Statius, and the Ilias\u00a0latina\u00a0or Latin Homer) as well as earlier research on manuscripts of a popular\u00a0medieval treatise (thePoetria nova\u00a0of\u00a0Geoffrey of Vinsauf). My focus will be on what is written between the lines (and in the margins) to help students\u00a0not\u00a0just learn but also feel what is happening in a text.<\/p>\n

Marjorie Curry Woods<\/strong> is Blumberg Professor of English, Professor of\u00a0Comparative Literature, and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the\u00a0University of Texas in Austin, where she has worked since 1991. She received\u00a0her B.A. in English from Stanford University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in\u00a0Mediaeval Studies from the University of Toronto. Her early research focused on\u00a0commentaries on an important medieval rhetorical treatise, the\u00a0Poetria\u00a0nova\u00a0of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, on which she published two books: an edition\u00a0and translation of two versions of\u00a0An Early Commentary on the\u00a0Poetria nova\u00a0of\u00a0Geoffrey of Vinsauf\u00a0and\u00a0Classroom Commentaries: Teaching\u00a0the\u00a0Poetria novaAcross Medieval and Renaissance Europe\u00a0(which\u00a0received the 2010 Book\u00a0Award from the Rhetoric Society of America). More\u00a0recently she has been studying the glosses and comments on medieval school\u00a0manuscripts of\u00a0classical texts for her next book,\u00a0Weeping for Dido:\u00a0Teaching the Classics in the Middle Ages, an expanded version of\u00a0her Gombrich Lectures given at the\u00a0Warburg Institute in 2014. She is\u00a0particularly interested in how medieval teachers emphasized emotional passages,\u00a0especially speeches in the voices of\u00a0female characters. Her next project will\u00a0focus on the use of historical composition exercises in teaching literature\u00a0from earlier periods. \u2014 See https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g_dEN4D-a7I<\/a><\/p>\n

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