Cosponsored by the Yale Medieval-Renaissance Forum
Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in the village of Marsden and lives in West Yorkshire. He is a graduate of Portsmouth University, where he studied Geography. As a post-graduate student at Manchester University, his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. Until 1994 he worked as a Probation Officer in Greater Manchester.
A weekly series of informal talks followed by tea on the library mezzanine during the academic year.
This semester’s talks will feature discussions related to the exhibition, Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance
More information on the exhibition: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/bibliomania-or-book-madnes…
A lecture by Toshiyuki Takamiya, Professor Emeritus, Keio University
In conjunction with the exhibition Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/bibliomania-or-book-madnes…
Featuring at 5pm, a lecture, “The Duc de Berry (1340-1416) and the Origins of Bibliomania”, by Christopher de Hamel, author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, followed by a reception at 6pm
In conjunction with the exhibition Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/bibliomania-or-book-madnes…
A panel discussion featuring exhibition curators Kathryn James and Aaron T. Pratt, with Peter Stallybrass and David Scott Kastan
In conjunction with the exhibition Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/bibliomania-or-book-madnes…
A weekly series of informal talks followed by tea on the library mezzanine during the academic year.
This semester’s talks will feature discussions related to the exhibition, Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance
More information on the exhibition: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/bibliomania-or-book-madnes…
A special performance (no lecture) of students in the Yale Collegium Musicum
Whitney Anne Trettien, Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, with Andrew Brown, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Yale, and Cathy DeRose, Digital Humanities Lab, Yale
Part of the series of panel discussions with Yale faculty and visiting speakers on the idea of the text as material object
For more on the Yale Program in the History of the Book, visit https://bookhistory.yale.edu
This exhibition takes its name from the history of “arrant book-lovers” written by Thomas Frognall Dibdin in 1842. It follows these lovers of the book through four case studies, observing the powerful and often unexpected relationships of books with their readers, owners, authors, collectors, and creators.
