The #PoPsymp final session is a round table on everything we've talked about over these two days. :)
Visual aspects of page layout look like they serve similar functions to / as pragmatic markers, saith @DanielWakelin1 at #PoPsymp
.@DanielWakelin1 showing wonderful images of re-used/re-purposed/recycled ruling
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Wonderful images of ruling in ME mss shown by @DanielWakelin1 – ruling for no purpose? What's it for, if it isn't used?
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.@DanielWakelin1 Is scribal decoration idiosyncratic or meaningful?
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.@DanielWakelin1 giving us his "holiday snaps" ie. self-shot photographs of manuscripts!
#PoPsymp #DIYdigitisation
.@imogenmarcus talking about the letters of Bess of Hardwick – check out the awesome online edition:
http://bit.ly/17rvkKT
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Last talk before lunch, @imogenmarcus on scribes in the letters of Bess of Hardwick, and relevance for linguistic analysis
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Changing reading practices reflected in changes in visual aspects of the page
Francesca Mackay at #PoPsymp
Ratia: Differences in editions of Stuart plague treatises? Do textual labels correlate with content? How does marketing play in?
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Now up, Maura Ratia on genre markers in the title pages of Stuart plague treatises
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..predictably showed up late to hear today's first paper at #PoPsymp, which is the PoP team's joint show:
http://bit.ly/1wxtzJU
Downing a second cup of good tea before runnning off to #PoPsymp . Proximity of venue :: show up in the nick of time.
Second keynote, and final paper today, is Colette Moore, on mise-en-page in Middle English devotional texts
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Next up, Anya Adair on otiose strokes in 15C English manuscripts
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Check out Yin Liu's project, Medieval Codes http://bit.ly/1sXkwPV
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Yin Liu on "Stating the obvious in runes", at #PoPsymp
Self-reference v common in runic inscriptions, e.g. on a ring, "I am a ring"!
First talk at #PoPsymp is by @JukkaTee - book history and historical linguistics and multilingualism and early medical books. Rich!
Sadly I don't have anything for #FlyleafFriday this week - also busy at #PoPsymp - but I hope to have something next week.
Aaand #PoPsymp starts off! Chilly day in Turku, but we're comfortable inside the busiest library in Finland (they tell us).
It's snowing lightly. I guess this draws the allotmenteering season to a close.
About to head to Turku for the #PoPsymp wch starts tomorrow!
Slides for my talk at #PoPsymp on Friday pretty much done. Still need to scrip the script, and cull about 8 slides.