Programme
Thursday 28 November 2019
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12:30 |
Welcome & registration |
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12:50 |
Prof. Olivier Deparis (UNamur, Belgium) | Introduction |
Plenary session | Chairman T. Falmagne (Luxembourg National Library, Luxemburg) |
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13:00 |
Prof. Matthew Collins (University of Cambridge, UK) | Medieval libraries as archives of domestication |
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14:00 |
Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani, Xavier Hermand, Olivier Deparis (UNamur, Belgium) | Autopsy of a scriptorium: Orval parchments put to the test of bio-archaeology |
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14:45 |
Coffee break |
Session "Analytical techniques" | Chairman: Johan Wouters (UNamur, Belgium) |
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15:00 |
Dr. Laurianne Robinet (CRC, FR) | Retrieving knowledge from the Chartres fire-damaged medieval manuscripts |
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15:45 |
Angel M.F. Alvarez (UNamur, Belgium) | Animal species identification in parchments using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) |
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16:30 |
Coffee break |
Session "Conservation & Restauration" | Chairman: Catherine Charles (UNamur, Belgium) |
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16:45 |
Prof. Dr Lieve Watteeuw (KUL, Illuminare, Center for the study of Medieval Art, Belgium) | Historical parchment restoration. Reflections on materials, techniques and degradation |
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17:30 |
Prof. Andrea Pataki - Hundt (Cologne Institue for Coservation Sciences, DE) & Rest. M.A. Marie Kern (LWL Museum, Munster, DE) | Accelerated Ageing of Parchment - investigation of a low-heat approach |
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19:30 |
Gala dinner |
Friday 29 November 2019
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08:45 |
Welcome coffee & croissants |
Session "Imaging techniques" | Chairman: Laurianne Robinet (CRC, France) |
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09:00 |
Dr Gaël Latour (Univ. Paris-Saclay, FR) | The potential of nonlinear optical microscopy to non-invasively quantify the degradation state of historical parchments |
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09:40 |
Julie Bouhy (UNamur, BE) | Imaging birefringence in parchments |
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10:10 |
Dr Andreas Janke (University of Hamburg, DE) | Multispectral Imaging of Medieval Music Manuscripts |
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10:50 |
Coffee break |
Session "Animal skins" | Chairman: Matthew Collins (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
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11:10 |
Dr Annelise Binois (Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne/Université de Copenhague) | Exploring past animal disease through the biological study of parchment |
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11:55 |
Dr Richard Thomas (University of Leicester, UK) | The changing size and shape of livestock in medieval and post-medieval England |
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12:40 |
Lunch break |
Session "Historical studies" | Chairman: François Bougard (IRHT Paris, France) |
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14:00 |
Dr Jean-François Nieus (UNamur, Belgium) & Dr Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani (UNamur, Belgium) | Medieval parchment charters: Orval and beyond |
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14:45 |
Dr Richard Thomas (University of Leicester, UK) | Zooarchaeological evidence for a possible parcheminerie at Green Shiel, Lindisfarne |
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15:30 |
Zina Cohen (BAM, Berlin & EPHE Paris, FR) | Parchment production from Antiquity to Medieval time using Jewish manuscripts from the Dead Sea Scrolls and from the Cairo Genizah |
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16:15 |
Coffee break |
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16:30 |
Round table & discussions |
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17:00 |
Concluding remarks | Paul Bertrand (UCL, Belgium) |
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17:30 |
Farewell drink |
