Cathedral Libraries and Archives in the British Isles

This international conference brings together scholars from a range of Humanities disciplines to consider the under-studied subject of Cathedral Libraries and Archives of the British Isles in the medieval and early modern periods. Papers will range over topics of the formation and housing of cathedral library collections, books and archival materials produced by members of the cathedrals, acquisitions and donations, as well as the dispersal at the reformation. The event will also mark the 600th anniversary of the re-founding of York Minster Library and include a visit to the original library space, built in the wake of the bequest by John Newton in 1414.

Keynote lectures will be given by Nigel Morgan (Cambridge), Christopher Norton (York), Rodney Thomson (Tasmania), and Magnus Williamson (Newcastle).

The conference has been organised by Brian Cummings, Linne Mooney, Bill Sherman and Hanna Vorholt and is supported by the Department for English and Related Literature, the Department of History of Art at the University of York, and the Society for Renaissance Studies.

For further information and to register please visit: http://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/conferences/ymc-2014/

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