BL Conference, Kraków 2021

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.

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BL Conference, Rome 2020

BL 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.”

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What’s in the name? Anthology

What’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)

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