The Reformation of the Book: 1450-1650
Schedule
2009 NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers
The Reformation of the Book: 1450-1650
- Consult the Select Bibliography for full titles of all readings.
- Please read the following items in advance of your arrival in Antwerp. We hope that they will inform our proceedings as seems appropriate: Gaskell, pp. 5-185; Gilmont 1999; Johnston and Gilmont; Klotz; Latré 2000; Saenger, 256-76; Thomas; Trapp.
- You need not bring Gaskell, but we ask you to bring hard copies of all other readings with you.
- This program is subject to change without prior notice.
- Three-hour meetings are scheduled at 9AM unless otherwise noted.
- Gather no less than 10 minutes in advance of all departure times for excursions!
Week 1:
Antwerp: Hand-printed Book Production / Printing on the European Continent
June 21 (Sun.) Arrival at Hotel Cammerpoorte, Antwerp
June 22 (Mon.):
9:00AM Introductory meeting at Lessius College (2-3 blocks from Hotel Cammerpoorte)
10:30 Guided tour of Antwerp’s old town center (Professor Guido Latré)
1:20-4:00 Individual conferences with Jim Bracken and John King. Aside from their own
conference, participants may conduct research at the library of the Plantin-Moretus Museum or visit sites in Antwerp or elsewhere.
6:00PM Reception at Lessius College
June 23 (Tues.): Printing in Antwerp: A Paradigm for Continental Printing (Prof. Guido
Latré)
Recommended Reading: Davis; de Nave and Otte, 55-73
10:00AM Welcome to Plantin-Moretus Museum (Ms. Odette Peterink, curator)
Guided tour of the Plantin-Moretus Museum (part one) (Professor Guido
Latré)
11:00 Rare-book exhibition and workshop (part one)
12:30PM Sandwiches and coffee (by courtesy of Lessius College)
1:30 Rare-book exhibition and workshop (part two)
2:30 Guided tour (part two)
3:30 Demonstration of type, typecasting, and operation of an antique hand press
5:00 Coffee at Lessius College
7:30 Candlelit dinner at Pelgrom Restaurant
June 24 (Wed.):
9AM William Tyndale and George Joye in Antwerp (Dr. Gergely Juhász )
Pertinent Reading: Johnston and Gilmont; Gilmont 1999; Latré 2000
10:00 Coffee at Lessius College
10:30 Screening of The Devil’s Words, a BBC docu-drama on the More-Tyndale
Controversy and the making of the English Bible
1:20-4:20PM Individual conferences with Jim Bracken and John King. Aside from their own conference, participants may conduct research at the library of the Plantin-
Moretus Museum or visit sites in Antwerp or elsewhere.
London: The British Library
June 25 (Thurs.):
8:05AM Gather outside Hotel Cammerpoorte
On-time departure by prepaid taxi vans to Antwerp Berchem Station.
9:11 Departure by train from Antwerp Berchem Station
9:55 Arrival at Bruxelles Midi station
10:59 Deadline for Eurostar check-in (no exceptions)
11:29 Departure from Bruxelles Midi
12:26PM Arrival at London St Pancras station. We will be in the time zone preceding
continental Europe
1:30 Check in at John Dodgson House, UCL, 24-36 Bidborough Street, London.
Our lodging is a two-block walk from St Pancras station
Afternoon Time free for registration at the British Library (prior to 5:45PM) and &
exploration of London. In order to avoid disappointment, submit all book
requests for Friday and Saturday in advance of arrival.
June 26 (Fri.):
9:30-12:00 Rare-book exhibition and workshop at the British Library may include the Gutenberg Bible; translations of the New Testament by Erasmus, Luther, and Tyndale (Anne Boleyn’s copy); anatomical engravings in Vesalius’s On the Structure of the Human Body; Copernicus’s On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres; and other treasures.
Afternoon Time free time to visit the permanent exhibition and conduct research at the British Library and to explore London
June 27 (Sat.): Time free time to conduct research at the British Library and to explore London
Week 2:
Oxford:
June 28 (Sun.):
10AM Departure from John Dodgson House by hired coach
noon Arrival at St. Edmund Hall (SEH), University of Oxford
1:00 Lunch at Wolfson Dining Hall
3:00 SEH orientation
Studies in the History of the Book
June 29 (Mon.): Recommended Reading: Barber, 1-16, 34-61.
9:15AM Depart SEH for Bodleian Library orientation.
9:30 Bodleian Library Orientation (with David Vaisey, Bodley’s Librarian Emeritus)
11:30 Registration for Bodleian Library readers’ privileges (medieval Divinity Hall)
1:50PM Guided Tour of Oxford (departure from front entrance of SEH)
3:00 Merton College (with visit to old library & tomb of Sir Thomas Bodley)
4:00 depart Merton
4:15 arrive Magdalen College (with visit to old library)
5pm depart Magdalen
July 1 (Wed.): Seminal Theories Concerning Book History
Reading: Darnton; McKenzie 1986, 1-21; Grafton, Eisenstein and Johns.
6:30PM Old Library: Reception
7:30 Old Dining Hall: Dinner
July 3 (Fri.):
10:00AM Re-forming Reading: Pre-Reformation, Reformation, Counter
Reformation
Rare-book exhibition and workshop at the Bodleian Library. Gather at 9:50AM
for group departure
Pertinent Reading: Saenger, 256-76; Thomas; Trapp; Klotz
Week 3
Religious Books: Pre-Reformation, Reformation, and Counter Reformation
July 5 (Sun.): Party after dinner
July 6 (Mon.): Illustration of Books: From Manuscript to Print
Reading: Camille, Edwards, Driver 2004
Mid-seminar evaluation
July 8 (Wed.): Printing and the Reformation: English versus Continental Practices
Reading: Pettegree 2000, 2002A, 2002B
July 10 (Fri.): Re-formatting the Book: Why Size Matters
8:30AM Departure from SEH for workshop and rare-book exhibition at the Printing
Museum of Oxford Univ. Press
Recommended Reading: Carlson, Kastan
Week 4
July 13 (Mon.): Re-forming the Biblical Text, Translation, and Reading: Erasmus’s Greek New Testament to the King James Bible
Reading: De Hamel, Stallybrass, Daniell
July 16 (Thurs.): Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: Compilation, Printing, and Reading
Recommended Reading: Bracken 1999, King 2004, King 2005
July 17 (Fri.): Re-forming Reading: Early Modes of Devotional Reading, Writing, and Printing
Rare-book exhibition and workshop at St. Johns College Library
Reading: Lives of Thomas More and William Tyndale (King 2004B, 260-78)
Week 5
July 20 (Mon.): Counter-Reformation Printing and Reading
Consideration of Roman Catholic martyrologies
Reading: Highley, Walsham, Noreen
July 22 (Wed.):
7:30PM Banquet and Celebration at Old Dining Hall
July 24 (Friday):
9AM Old Dining Hall: conclusion round table discussion of our findings
July 25 (Sat.): Departure
Sheldonian Theater (Oxford)
British Library (London)
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Town Square (Antwerp)