Please mark your calendars for a special event with Professor Catherine Innes-Parker on Thursday, March 14th in 623 Van Pelt (Vitale II), 12 PM-1:30 PM. Prof. Innes-Parker writes:
I will be focusing on manuscripts containing Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God, looking at the codicology and things we can only see when we have the actual manuscript in front of us.
Catherine Innes-Parker is Professor of Medieval English literature at the University of Prince Edward Island and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies. An expert on women's literacy and manuscript ownership, she is the author of numerous articles and editor of the recent volume Anchoritism in the Middle Ages: Texts and Traditions (University of Chicago Press, 2013).
The principal focus of Prof. Innes-Parker’s current research is the fourteenth-century Middle English meditation A Talkyng of the Loue of God in its cultural and manuscript context. In this talk, she will discuss Penn MS. Codex 218 and MS. Codex 197, both of which contain A Talkyng of the Dread and Love of God, a text that is connected to the West Midlands and occurs in similar manuscript contexts.
For more information about Prof. Innes-Parker's research at Penn, see the Schoenberg Institute website: https://schoenberginstitute.org/2018-2019-sims-visiting-research-fellowships.
