Day 2 of the BL Conference takes us up the winding paths to the petroleum of pedagogy, Language of the Gods, prions, generation Z and the Silk Road.
Read moreBL Conference, Kraków 2021 [DAY 2]
![BL Conference, Kraków 2021 [DAY 2]](https://i0.wp.com/aeacademicpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/UJ_1024px-Collegium_Maius_2017-e1622528410617-1.jpg?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1)
BL Conference, Kraków 2021
From one medieval city to another, carrying and sharing modern ideas across Europe and beyond. Rome, the site of Sapienza (est. 1303), one of the oldest European universities, hosted the first international conference for young BL scholars in 2020. This year the BL conference takes us to another mecca of academics, Kraków, home for the Jagiellonian University (est. 1364) and current host for the 2nd International Conference for Young Researchers.
Read moreBL Conference, Rome 2020
Conference is the action of bringing together; it involves contribution and comparison of ideas. Understood as a rendezvous, it is often defined as “the act of conversing on serious subjects, formal discourse; oral discussion of any question.”
Read moreWhat’s in the name? Anthology
“[S]cholars have not yet arrived at a consensus about a number of terms concerning compilation literature. As a result, terms such as compilation, collection, selection, anthology, corpus, miscellany, collectanea, anthology (sic), and florilegium are frequently used to refer to the same category of texts, without any distinction whatsoever […]” (Manafis 2020: 1.1.2)
Read moreWhat’s in the name? Doctor
“Master Jacobus de Farneto of the Roman patrimony is appointed to teach grammar for the year 1384-1385 at Bologna…, and he must take his doctor’s degree or at least the licentiate before next Christmas…” Teaching Appointment Conditional on Receiving the Doctorate” (Teaching Appointment…)
Read moreWhat’s in the name? Master of Arts
“But the master is so called as thrice great, set above others in mental capacity, reasoning power and moral conduct, of which if he lacks one he is not a good master.” (Commendation of the Clerk)
Read moreWhat’s in the name? University
Many associate “university,” this ancient “studium generale,” with universal knowledge ― Hastings Rashdall, a 19th c. historian of universities, debunks this stereotype. What university has certainly always been is universally accessible and generally open to folks from all around.
Read more