Books of Knowledge and Their Reception: Circulation of Widespread Texts in Late Medieval Europe

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Books of Knowledge and Their Reception: Circulation of Widespread Texts in Late Medieval Europe

Original language description

The conference aimed to rethink the history of late medieval literacy. In the scope of the interest were primarily the texts which can be labelled as knowledge compendia, i. e. assembling knowledge of the world in the form of historical, philosophical, medicinal, moralising or catechetical summaries. Some of these texts were read by a large audience in different strata of medieval society and were copied, adapted and even translated into the vernacular during the entire 14th and 15th centuries. Their popularity is proved by the high number of surviving manuscripts. Since they were gradually spreading, initially to elite centres of learning, but later also to a larger scope of groups of recipients (parishes, citizens, nobility), the participants of the conference considered them to be an applicable material for the research of communities of their recipients.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

M - Conference organization

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Event location

Prague

Event country

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Event starting date

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Event ending date

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Total number of attendees

23

Foreign attendee count

11

Type of event by attendee nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce