Experts in Latin epigraphy to meet at UAB

From 13 to 15 December the UAB Torre Vila-Puig will host the international seminar on "Stones, Parchments and Papers. The Memory of Latin Epigraphy from Late Antiquity to Baroque". It will focus on issues related to processes of modification and transmission of Latin epigraphy from the Late Antiquity to Baroque.

07/12/2011

Approximately twenty European specialists working on research into a variety of aspects of Latin and Hispanic epigraphy will be meeting and taking part in the seminar.

Members of the Area of Latin Studies at the UAB Department of Antiquity and Middle Age Studies have organised the event as part of the research project being carried out in the past three years in collaboration with the University of Alcalá (UAH). The research consists of two projects which study the relation between Hispanic epigraphy during Late Antiquity and the effects it had in epigraphy during the Renaissance period.

The sessions will focus on three issues: causes which eventually modified epigraphy in the Antiquity in Christian societies; channels which maintained the continuity of classic epigraphy; and the methodological utility and problems posed by the study of manuscript epigraphy.

This is the second edition of the seminar. The results of the first meeting, which was held in Madrid last year, will be presented in a book published jointly by the UAH and the UAB Publications Service.

The seminar is a collaboration between the "CIL II Centre" of the University of Alcalá and the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at UAB.

More information: Stones, Parchments and Papers. The Memory of Latin Epigraphy from Late Antiquity to Baroque.