Le XVIe Colloque du Comité International de Paléographie Latine se tiendra du 2 au 5 septembre 2008 à l'Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, Londres.

The Sixteenth Colloquium of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine will be held on 2-5 September 2008 at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, London.

Dans l'optique médiévale, savoir écrire signifiait non seulement maîtriser la technique de l’écriture, mais aussi être capable d’écrire avec une intelligence “correcte” de la grammaire, de la ponctuation, etc.

From the medieval viewpoint writing meant not only the skill of handwriting, but also the ability to write with ‘correct’
understanding of grammar, punctuation, etc.

Le colloque s'intéressera à la psychologie et à la sociologie du scribe médiéval.

• Comment les scribes apprenaient-ils à écrire au Moyen
  Age?
• Que signifiait, en termes sociaux et culturels,
  l'adoption d’une écriture pour une fonction particulière?
• Dans quelle mesure l’écriture était-elle influencée par les tendances de la mode?
• Quelle était l’interface entre le scribe, le lecteur et les signes graphiques utilisés adoptées pour transmettre un message?

The colloquium will address the psychology and sociology of the medieval scribe.

• How did scribes learn to write in the Middle Ages?
• What was the social and cultural significance of a script chosen for a particular function ?
• How was script influenced by features of fashion ?
• What was the interface between scribe and reader and the graphic signs used to communicate a message ?

Ce type de questions a des répercussions sur la tradition des textes, le développement de l’alphabétisme, et l’histoire de la lecture.

Such questions impact on the transmission of texts, the growth of literacy and history of reading.

Jesus Alturo y Perucho (Spain) :

La enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la escritura en Cataluña desde el siglo IX al XII.

Paul Antonio (United Kingdom) :

[Title to be announced.]

Jacqueline Austin (United Kingdom) :

"Librarii qui docere possint" : scribal training at Vindolanda.

Charles Burnett (United Kingdom) :

Learning to write numerals in the Middle Ages.

Carmen del Camino Martínez (Spain) :

Aprendizaje y modelos gráficos : entre el ámbito profesional y el privado.

Patrizia Carmazzi (Italy) :

Lettere e scrittura nell'insegnamento grammaticale del Medioevo : teoria di una pratica ?

Irene Ceccherini (Italy) :

Insegnamento, funzione e diffusione sociale della scrittura a Firenze nei secoli XIII e XIV.

Michael Clanchy (United Kingdom) :

Was writing taught, along with reading, to children through the ABC primer ?

Aliza Cohen-Mushlin (Israel) :

A school for scribes : the scriptorium of St. Mary Magdalene in Frankenthal in the 12th century.

Elizabeth Danbury (United Kingdom) :

Late medieval English chancery clerks : learning to write and writing to impress.

Paolo Fioretti (Italy) :

Ink writing and "a sgraffio" writing in ancient Rome : from learning to practical use.

David Ganz (United Kingdom) :

Early medieval cursive scripts : calligraphy and risk.

Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson (Iceland) :

Reading and Writing in Medieval Iceland.

Jacqueline Hamesse (Belgium) :

Maîtrise de l'écriture et pratiques universitaires.

Jerzy Kaliszuk (Poland) :

Latin script and vernacular texts in the Middle Ages : the case of Polish texts (14th-15th centuries).

Berthold Kress (Germany) :

The Alphabet of Paul Lautensack : from elementary school to divine revelation.

Erik Kwakkel (Netherlands/Canada) :

Disobeying the rules : unconventional scribal practices in the late Middle Ages.

Cristina Mantegna (Italy) :

Scritture di pratici, scritture di giuristi, scritture di " dotti " : scuole ed esperienze grafiche a confronto.

Maria do Rosario Morujão (Portugal) :

Apprendre à écrire dans le Portugal médiéval : bilan des connaissances.

Erik Niblaeus (Sweden) :

Learning to write in Southern Sweden : liturgical fragments and the creation of a culture of the book.

Åslaug Ommundsen (Norway) :

The first scribal culture in Norway.

Olaf Pluta (Germany) :

"Quaedam regulae de modo titulandi..." : a late-medieval tutorial for novice scribes.

Lucy Sandler (United States) :

"Written with the finger of God" : fourteenth-century images of scribal practice in the Lichtenthal Psalter.

Beat von Scarpatetti (Switzerland) :

Thirty-three exclamations in a Basle Donatus MS of the 14th century.

Annina Seiler (Switzerland) :

"Latinis regulis barbara nomina stringi non possunt ", or How to write the vernacular.

Martin Steinmann (Switzerland) :

Writing monks in the early Middle Ages.

Alison Stones (United States) :

The Valenciennes Papias and learning in the grammar school in thirteenth-century France.

Alessandro Zironi (Italy) :

Reading and writing Gothic in the Carolingian age.