Monday 11 June
10:00–10:15 - Welcome
- Samu Niskanen & Matti Peikola
10:15–11:15 - Keynote 1
- Benjamin Pohl (Bristol), Working copy or published version? Revisiting the earliest manuscript(s) of Eadmer of Canterbury's Historia novorum in Anglia
11:30–13:00 - Session 1
- Jesse Keskiaho (Helsinki), Framing Augustine's text with annotation in the Early Middle Ages
- Samu Niskanen (Helsinki), Publishing under papal auspices
- Jaakko Tahkokallio (Helsinki), Robert of Gloucester's patronage and the early distribution of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum in the light of the manuscript evidence
14:15–15:45 - Session 2
- Jakub Kujawinski (Helsinki), A publishing friar. Intended readers and the primary audiences for works of Nicholas Trevet (c. 1258 – c. 1334)
- Lauri Leinonen (Helsinki), Database of medieval publishing networks: preliminary remarks
- Sanna Supponen (Helsinki), Reconstructing lost contents on the evidence of paratext: Alphabetum disticcionum of Master Mathias of Sweden
Tuesday 12 June
10:15–11:15 - Keynote 2
- Leah Tether (Bristol): The ‘Un-publication’ of Middle English Romance in Early-Modern England
11:30–13:00 - Session 3
- Mari-Liisa Varila (Turku): Compilers as text-producers in English printed paratexts 1500–1550
- Aino Liira & Sirkku Ruokkeinen (Turku): Metadiscursive comments on translation in English front matter, 1400–1600
- Matti Peikola (Turku): Paratextual frames for reading/using Middle English biblical manuscripts
14:15–14:45 - Open discussion
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Conclusions and perspectives, a discussion chaired by Alderik Blom (Marburg)
The colloquium is sponsored by the ERC project Medieval Publishing, the University of Helsinki, and the University of Turku.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 716538.