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Wednesday 10th November, 2021, 12-14. Online.
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/knowledge-learning-and-student-notebooks-tickets-168732454313
Programme:
- Alexandra Baneu (Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca): De primis tuis exercitiis scolasticis. Notes on the manuscript Paris, BnF lat. 16408.
- Maximilian Schuh (Freie Universität Berlin): Copying, listening and noting down. Evidence of teaching and learning from fifteenth-century rhetoric lectures at the University of Ingolstadt.
- Violet Soen (KU Leuven): The Magister Dixit and @Aulam project (KU Leuven): where are we now?
Abstracts and Biographies:
Alexandra Baneu
De primis tuis exercitiis scolasticis. Notes on the manuscript Paris, BnF lat. 16408
The manuscript Paris BnF lat. 16408 has received some attention in the past, mainly due to its association to the manuscript Paris BnF lat. 16409 which partially copies it. The connection between the two has been analyzed and discussed at length in Zenon Kaluza’s book “Thomas de Cracovie: contribution à l’histoire du Collège de la Sorbonne”. There are also a few articles which focus on particular aspects of the content of the Paris BnF lat. 16408 manuscript. Among them, Kaluza’s study “Le brouillon de trois questions d’Etienne Gaudet sur le Grand Schisme” deserves special mention. This manuscript is a notebook, which belonged to Etienne Gaudet, and it is one of the most interesting witnesses to Parisian university life in the 14th century that we have found thus far. For this reason, it is being fully transcribed by the NOTA team in view of an electronic edition. In the present talk, I will sketch out some elements that are indicative of the practice of note-taking, such as marginal signs, references to dates or specific events, and notes that the scribe makes to himself (in the second person!), in order to underline the fact that this particular witness is a work instrument, characterized by imperfections and personal touches.
Alexandra Baneu is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant “Note-taking and Notebooks as Channels of Medieval Academic Dissemination across Europe” (acronym: NOTA, contract number 948152), which has Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca as Host Institution. Being trained both in philology (Latin – Ancient Greek) and in philosophy, she is also a researcher at the “Sextil Pușcariu” Institute of Linguistics and Literary History, working on the critical edition of writings stemming from the Transylvanian School, a cultural movement of the 18th and early 19th centuries. She has defended her thesis on the “Rosarium” of Pelbartus of Themeswar, a 15th century Observant Franciscan, in 2016, at the Babeș-Bolyai University, under the supervision of Prof. Alexander Baumgarten and has worked in numerous research projects with national and international funding. In 2017 she was awarded a New Europe College fellowship.
Maximilian Schuh
Copying, listening and noting down. Evidence of teaching and learning from fifteenth-century rhetoric lectures at the University of Ingolstadt
The paper examines student manuscripts from late medieval rhetoric classes at the University of Ingolstadt. The ‘Elegantiolae’ composed by the Italian humanist Augustinus Datus were a popular rhetoric textbook at the universities in the Holy Roman Empire during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century. At the Bavarian University of Ingolstadt, founded in 1472, its use can be traced to the mid-1470s. The glosses handed down in 20 identifiable Ingolstadt manuscript copies of the ‘Elegantiolae’ provide insights into the teaching and learning practices in the lectures. These notes, which were added during the lectures, are written traces of the listeners’ processing of the master’s explanations. The oral nature of the lessons is clearly reflected here. Although the concrete procedure in the lecture hall cannot be completely reconstructed, the notes do point to certain mediation and appropriation strategies used by the masters and students. The consideration of the institutional, social and economic conditions of teaching and learning at the late medieval faculty of arts in Ingolstadt form the background of this reconstruction.
Maximilian Schuh holds a PhD in Medieval History from the University of Münster (2013) and is a lecturer in Medieval History at Freie Universität Berlin. Previous positions were located at the Universities of Bamberg, Münster, München, Göttingen and Heidelberg. His research focuses on the history of universities in the Holy Roman Empire in the Fifteenth Century and on the perceptions of environment in Fourteenth century England. Furthermore, he is interested in discussing the collaboration between the humanities and the natural sciences.
Violet Soen
The Magister Dixit and @Aulam project (KU Leuven): where are we now?
About a decade ago, LECTIO, the Leuven Institute for the Study of the Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance initiated the Magister Dixit Project. While its most visible part might be the high-quality digitizations made of more than 500 notes made by Louvain students or masters, often in the Faculty of Arts, the project also led to a continuous stream of projects and doctoral dissertations about the methods and contents of teaching the trivium and quadrivium at the crossroads between Cologne and Paris. In this presentation, I will give a brief introduction into the milestones of the Magister Dixit project, and some of the new research results based on the philological and philosophical evaluation of these digitized manuscripts. As always, new results inspire new questions. Most recently, the @Aulam project has been launched to explore some of the blind spots in our earlier research projects, delving deeper into the relation between manuscript and print, but also comparing educational methods of the Faculty of Arts with those of the higher faculties, such as Law and Theology.
Violet Soen is Associate Professor at the Research Group Early Modern History of the Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven as well as coordinator of the research axis 3 of LECTIO related to ‘Schools, Universities & Education’. She is fascinated by questions of religious war and peace in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. She coordinates the team www.transregionalhistory.eu on the role of borderlands and border crossings in times of Reformation and Revolt. This led to a newer field of expertise on the role of borderland universities as a nexus of migrating persons and ideas during the Wars of Religion in the Low Countries and France. More particularly, she is now focusing on the transregional transfers between Leuven, Douai and Reims. Earlier, she authored the award-winning monograph Geen pardon zonder Paus (Royal Academy, 2007) on the role of the theologian Michael Baius (whose courses are being explored in the @AULAM project). She steers book historical research, such as the datasets Manuale Lovaniense, Impressae and Impressa Catholica Cameracensia. Check also our hashtag #Leuven1425.