PROGRAMME
A workshop organised by the FLAG project https://flag-project.uni-mainz.de/home/
Aberdeen, 5-6 November 2021
Craig Suite (Meeting Room 1, Floor 7) Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen
Participation by invitation only
Friday 5 November
9.00 Coffee
9.15 Welcome and introduction – Joerg Rogge (Mainz) and Jackson Armstrong (Aberdeen)
Session 1 (Chair: Jackson Armstrong)
9.30 – 10.10 Wim Peters (Mainz) and William Hepburn (Aberdeen), Digital hermeneutics: methodology and first results from the Aberdeen ARO corpus
10.15 – 10.55 Regina Schäfer (Mainz), Talking about Law and Order in Augsburg
10.55 – 11.05 Short coffee break
11.05 – 11.45 Amy Blakeway (St Andrews), War and the burghs, 1528–1550
11.50 – 12.30 Julia Bruch (Köln), Accounting Practices in Monasteries, Towns and Courts. Methodological Reflections
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12.30 – 13.30 Lunch and coffee
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Session 2 (Chair: Joerg Rogge)
13.30 – 14.10 Elizabeth Gemmill (Oxford), The language of things: descriptions of objects and consumables in the burgh court records of late medieval Aberdeen
14.15 – 14.55 Jessica Bruns (Halle), Knowledge between pages. Book usage as a new form of administrative practice in late medieval Soest
14.55 – 15.05 Short coffee break
15.05 – 15.45 Eliza Hartrich (UEA, Norwich), For the Comene Wele? Languages of Unity and Division in English and Irish Municipal Records, c. 1450-1500
15.50 – 16.20 Phil Astley (Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives) - viewing of Aberdeen Council Register volume from City Archives
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Dinner
Saturday 6 November
9.30 Coffee + biscuits
Session 3 (Chair: Claire Hawes)
10.00 – 10.40 Jens Klingner (ISGV, Dresden), Texts and transmission. City books and account books from late medieval Dresden
10.45 – 11.25 Andrew Simpson (Edinburgh), Brieves in the Burgh Records of Aberdeen, ca.1400-1500: Some Preliminary Thoughts
11.25 – 11.40 Short coffee break
11.40 – 12.20 Christian Speer (Halle), Are town books reliable witnesses of the past? Critical considerations on the categories “note“, “transcript” and “fair copy” based on the Libri civitatis and Libri obligationum of Görlitz in the 14th and 15th century
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12.30 – 13.30 Closing discussion
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Lunch