Talk: Manuscript Fragments and Manuscript Concepts

Talk: Manuscript Fragments and Manuscript Concepts

Friday 26 November 2021

Time: 17:15

Location: TS Eliot Theatre, Merton College

History of the book

Speaker: Dr Daniel Sawyer, Fitzjames Research Fellow in Medieval English Literature, Merton College, Oxford.

This talk considered some actual medieval manuscript fragments, but also the growing currency of the concept of the fragment in medieval studies.

After the talk there was an opportunity to view several medieval manuscript fragments from the College library.

A History of the Book Group event.