Framing the Word: The Bible in European Culture and Society, ca. 1250-1611

In conjunction with a student-curated exhibit (May 15-July 15) of Medieval and Early Modern Bibles in the UCSB Davidson Library’s Department of Special Collections, Prof. Sharon Farmer (UCSB History) has organized this conference. Each speaker will incorporate material from books in the exhibit into his or her talk.
Friday, May 27 / 1:00-4:00 PM, McCune Conference Center, HSSB 6020

Commercial Manuscript Makers in Thirteenth-Century Paris and the Making of the “Santa Barbara Bible”
Richard Rouse, History, University of California, Los Angeles

Printing the Hebrew Bible in Early Modern Europe: Christian and Jewish Scholarly Collaboration
in an Age of Persecution
Theodore Dunkelgrün, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Witches, Virgins, and the Whore of Babylon: Female Types in a Sixteenth-Century Lutheran Context
Bonnie Noble, Art History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Before and After 1611: The Making and Remaking of the King James Version
Lori Anne Ferrell, School of Arts and Humanities, Claremont Graduate University

There will be a reception following the conference at the Department of Special Collections, Third Floor, Davidson Library

This conference has been generously supported by the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Catholic Studies Program, the Department of History, the Department of Religious Studies, The Early Modern Center, the Medieval Studies Program, and the Humanities and Fine Arts Dean’s Fund for Jewish Studies, which was made possible by a generous donation in memory of Martha Heyman Franck.

jwil 13.iii.2011, hm 5/17