Workshops
2024
April 17t - 20th Copenhagen
What can we take forward in Biocodicology, is Molecular Paleoecology a future?
Materiality and Technical analysis: Proteins, collagen, parchment and their degradation. What happens to skin chemically and physically after it is prepared as parchment? What analytical techniques can provide insight into interactions between parchment and its coatings, environmental degradation factors, and degradation mechanisms of parchment? What degradation mechanisms are of most concern in the conservation community and in need of further research?
To explore the potential insights offered by Economic History, and if there are clear periods of crisis in parchment production for (for example) murrains, competitive media, relative price of salt (for skin preservation) and competitive media, changes in the skin trade.
2023
August 29-31
Klosterneuburg
What happens to skin when it is prepared
as parchment? What traces are recorded on the membrane or as chemical records that can be used to infer manufacturing history.
23rd May
Paris
To what extent are the scribes and the clients aware of the quality of the skin they are using? How much is the choice dictated by expediency, by the material properties of the parchment, or the perceived were of particular skins prepared in particular ways? To what extent do the choices of selection of animals correlate with a value or perceived value of the texts and how does this vary from the centre to perform monasteries in Austria, Belgium Denmark and England? How is the perceived value of animal skins reflected in the perceived value of the texts themselves?
May 10 - 12
Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) , 59 rue Néricault Destouches , 37000 Tours - FR
Organisers: Dr Alberto Campagnolo / Prof. Elena Pierazzo
registration@lestudium-ias.fr www.lestudium-ias.com
This workshop will explore how to address the humanities/science data divide. Specifically we will explore how Linked Open Data may be used to connect scientific databases (e.g. http://www.erda.dk/) and archaeological databases (http://archaeologydataservice. ac.uk/) with collated manuscript databases (http://www.mesa-medieval.org/) and shelf numbers in publications. The workshop will be closely concerned with the ways in which we make biomolecular and archival data interoperable and optimise it for re-use to tie together scientific and bibliographic referencing.
2022
Copenhagen: Saxo Institute
2019
Biocodicology of Parchment
The opening workshop explored the interrelationships between scientific analysis, craft and manuscript scholarship. Details are on the standalone website
Genetics of parchment
We will bring together researchers working at the interface of genetics and archaeology to understand the process of improvement
