Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
January 20, 2006, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

A Book of Her Own: Lectures on Materials in the Exhibition

Moderator: Jessica Brantley, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University

Robert Babcock, Curator, Early Books and Manuscripts, “The Nogarola Sisters and Their Study of Justinus: Women’s History in Fifteenth-Century Verona”

Torrence Thomas (graduate student), "To Bedeck the Mind and Soul: The Library of the Cloister of St. Elisabeth, Bressanone"

Marshall Kibbey (graduate student), "A Ritual Printed for the Cistercian Nuns at Santa Susanna in Rome: Liturgical Books and Female Ownership"

Elizabeth Archibald (graduate student), "Flyleaves and Book Thieves: Tracing  Seventeenth-Century Women's Book Ownership"

4:00 p.m. Keynote Address

Mary Erler (Fordham University), "Cultural Uses of Books of Hours: An Album Amicorum."  Introduced by Nicole Rice

5:00-6:00   Reception and Viewing of Exhibition (Beinecke mezzanine)