Programme:
THURSDAY, 17 JUNE:
Session 1: ‘What is early medieval Latin science?’
15:00-15:25: James T. Palmer (St. Andrews)
15:25-15:50: Philipp Nothaft (Dublin)
16:00-16:25: Faith Wallis (Montreal)
16:25-16:50: John J. Contreni (Purdue)
16:50-18:00: Open discussion
18:30: Virtual Pub
FRIDAY, 18 JUNE:
Session 2: Eschatology
9:30-9:55: Tobit Loevenich (Dublin) – Usque ad mediam noctem: an eschatological passage in the Computus Einsidlensis
9:55-10:20: Elisa Ramazzina (Belfast) – Monsters at the end of time
10:20-10:45: Discussion
Session 3: The Carolingian Age
11:15-11:40: Christian Schweizer (Dublin) – Computus, quadrivium, and poetry in Dicuil’s Liber {de astronomia}
11:40-12:05: Mariken Teeuwen (Amsterdam) – Carolingian readers of Martianus and Boethius: How did they gloss the Ars arithmetica?
12:05-12:30: Discussion
Session 4: 9th and 10th-century Breton connections
14:00-14:25: Paula Harrison (Galway) – Seeing through a manuscript, darkly: illumination through computistical networks as witnessed in Laon Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 422
14:25-14:50: Jacopo Bisagni (Galway) / Immo Warntjes (Dublin) – Abbo of Fleury’s Breton lunar calendar
14:50-15:15: Discussion
Session 5: Later developments
15:45-16:10: Fathi Jarray (Tunis) – The distribution of water with timekeeping in the Islamic oasis: a shared knowledge from the Antiquity to the Modern epoch
16:10-16:35: Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Oxford) – Thomas Lydiat’s proposal for a new calendar
16:35-17:00: Discussion
18:00-19:00: Presentation of latest publications in the field
This session includes a discussion with editors of series that are interested in, or have a track record of, publishing monographs on matters computistical. We hope that this will give a sense of potential publication venues, especially to colleagues at the beginning of their careers.
19:00: Virtual Pub
SATURDAY, 19 JUNE:
Session 6: Late Antiquity
14:00-14:25: Sr. Maria Theotokos Adams, SSVM (Washington, DC) – Computus and exegesis in Eusebius of Caesarea
14:25-14:50: Daniel Mc Carthy (Dublin) – Sulpicius Severus’ construction of his 84-year paschal table
14:50-15:15: Discussion
Session 7: Websites / Databases
15:45-16:45: Presentation of the following websites:
Database of pre-AD 900 computistical manuscripts / texts / objects – Judith ter Horst (Dublin)
A descriptive handlist of Breton manuscripts, c. AD 780–1100 – Jacopo Bisagni (Galway)
Database of early medieval manuscripts of Isidore’s Etymologiae – Evina Steinová (Amsterdam)
16:45-17:15: Discussion