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MASTER CLASSES 2009

Beinecke Master Classes are non-credit seminars offered without fee to Yale graduate students. Under the direction of distinguished visiting scholars, these intensive seminars explore research methodologies and skills ultilizing primary materials from the collections of the Beinecke Library. Five full-day sessions are scheduled for each class, from 8:30a.m. to 4:30p.m. The classes will be conducted at the Beinecke Library. Enrollment is limited.

To apply for admission, submit a brief statement to the course coordinator in which you describe your background (including department and year of study) and your interest in the course. Email submissions are welcome. Please be sure to include your telephone number and e-mail address. To be assured a place in the class of your choice, your statement must be received no later than Friday, April 17, 2009 .

 


CURRENT CLASSES




English ms

May 18-22, 2009

English Paleography and Archival Sources, 16th-18th Century
Maija Jansson

NOTE: To be assured of consideration in this limited-enrollment class, prospective students are asked to apply for this class no later than Friday, April 17th. 

This course will combine a study of 16th-18th century English handwriting (script and numerals) with an introduction to manuscript documents and using archives. Students will learn to recognize and read various hands. They will also learn how to begin archival research, what questions to raise regarding documents, dates, authors, and provenance. Although the class will work only with English language materials, the principles explored in the course can be applied across a broad range of research in the history of early-modern Europe.

Maija Jansson, Director Emerita of the Yale Center for Parliamentary History, has edited multi-volume editions of parliamentary proceedings from the 17th century. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and currently a research affiliate in the Department of History, Yale University. Her most recent journal article concerns John Hampden and shared memory. It appears in the Eighteenth Century Journal, winter 2008-2009.

To apply, please write to Kathryn James, Assistant Curator of the Early Modern Books and Manuscripts Collection, at kathryn.james@yale.edu, or call 203-432-2872.



PAST CLASSES



January 2009

English Paleography and Archival Sources (16th-18th Century)
(Maija Jansson, Director of the Yale Center for Parlimentary History)

May 2008

Humanistic Script in Italy
(Stefano Zamponi, Professor of Latin Palaeography, Director of the "Dipartimento di Studi sul Medioevo e il Rinascimento," and Director of the School of Doctoral Studies in Philology and Textual Transmission at the University of Florence)

Pictures as Primary Sources
(Martha Sandweiss, Professor of American Studies and History, Amherst College)

May 2007

Late Bibliographical Description and Scholarly Editing
(G. Thomas Tanselle, former Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and Professor of Bibliographic Studies at Columbia University.)

English Paleography and Archival Sources (16th-18th Century)
(Maija Jansson, Director of the Yale Center for Parlimentary History)

The Industrial Book in America, 1830-1914
(Michael Winship, Iris Howard Regents Professor II of English at the University of Texas at Austin)


May 2006

Late Medieval Latin Script
(Albert Derolez, Curator Emeritus of Special Collections in the Universiteitsbibiotheek Gent; Professor Emeritus of Palaeography and Codicology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Shakespeare and the Book
(Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania)


May 2005

Late Medieval Latin Script
(Albert Derolez, Professor Emeritus of Palaeography and Codicology
at the Université Libre de Bruxelles; President of the Comité
International de Paléographie Latine)

Milton and the Book
(Stephen B. Dobranski, Professor of Renaissance Literature and Textual Studies at the Georgia State University)


May 2004

The Italian Book and Renaissance Drama
(Louise George Clubb, Professor Emerita of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley)

Editing Debussy
(Denis Herlin, CNRS in Paris)

Pictures as Primary Sources for American History
(Martha Sandweiss, Amherst College)

Interpretive Acts: Theory and Practice in the Scholarly Editing of Literary Texts
(Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Oxford University & Fordham University)


May 2003

Composing Italian Opera
(Philip Gossett, University of Chicago)

Manuscripts and Meaning: Reading the Primary Sources of Tudor and Stuart England
(David Scott, History of Parliament Trust)

Maps as Historical Tools
(Barbara McCorkle, former curator of the Yale University map collection)

History of the Book
(John Barnard, retired Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds)


March / May 2002

Reading Prints and Graphic Images, 1740-1840
(Brian E. Maidment, University of Salford)

Pictures as Primary Sources for American History
(Martha Sandweiss, Amherst College)

Bibliographical Description and Scholarly Editing
(G. Thomas Tanselle, Guggenheim Foundation)


March / May 2001

Approaches to Biography
(Hermione Lee, University of Oxford)

The Material Culture of American Photography
(Peter Palmquist, David Plowden, Richard Benson)

Interrogating Manuscript Sources of Tudor and Stuart Britain
(David Scott)


March / May 2000

Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts
(Adam Gacek, McGill University)

Late Medieval Latin Scripts
(Albert Delorez, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Bibliographical Description and Scholarly Editing
(G. Thomas Tanselle, Guggenheim Foundation)

Scribal Culture: Scribal Treason
(Harold Love, Monash University)

Introduction to Greek Manuscripts
(Mervin Dilts, New York University)

Italian Family Archives: The Spinelli Collection
(Carol Bresnahan Menning, University of Toledo)


May 10-21, 1999

Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts
(Adam Gacek, McGill University)

Bibliographical Description and Scholarly Editing
(G. Thomas Tanselle, Guggenheim Foundation)

Pictures as Primary Sources for American History
(Martha A. Sandweiss, Amherst College)

Late Medieval Latin Scripts
(Albert Delorez, université libre de Bruxelles)


May 1998

Pictures as Primary Sources for American History
(Martha A. Sandweiss, Amherst College)

Introduction to Greek Papyri
(Roger S. Bagnall, Columbia University)


Spring 1997

Coptic Documentary Papyri
(Terry Wilfong, University of Michigan & Sarah Clackson, Cambridge University)


March 1994

Renaissance Italian Documents
(Gino Corti)

 

 


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