{"id":16272,"date":"2017-05-15T09:20:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=16272"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:52:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:52:28","slug":"may-16-4th-lyell-lecture-scribes-city-paul-nelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2017\/may-16-4th-lyell-lecture-scribes-city-paul-nelles\/","title":{"rendered":"May 16: 4th Lyell Lecture \u201cScribes in the city\u201d with Paul Nelles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        May 16: 4th Lyell Lecture \u201cScribes in the city\u201d with Paul Nelles\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h2 id=\"an-eternal-archive-lyell-lectures-2017\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Lyell-lectures-2017-final_Page_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16183\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Lyell-lectures-2017-final_Page_1-240x342.jpg\" alt=\"Lyell lecture poster\" width=\"240\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Lyell-lectures-2017-final_Page_1-240x342.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Lyell-lectures-2017-final_Page_1-160x228.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Lyell-lectures-2017-final_Page_1-768x1094.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Lyell-lectures-2017-final_Page_1-400x570.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Lyell-lectures-2017-final_Page_1-360x513.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Lyell-lectures-2017-final_Page_1.jpg 877w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>An eternal archive &#8211; Lyell Lectures 2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>16 May 2017, 5:00pm &#8211; 6:00pm<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Venue: Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Oxford University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speaker(s): Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/paul-nelles\/\">Paul Nelles<\/a>, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"description\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Description<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Sixteenth-century Rome was a hub of scribal activity: work-a-day copyists, notaries, and highly skilled scribes (such as those employed in the Vatican Library) all made their living by the pen. This lecture situates the Vatican Library within the context of contemporary Roman scribal practice and the urban strategies of Pope Sixtus V.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"the-vatican-library-and-the-counter-reformation\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Vatican Library&nbsp;and the Counter-Reformation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 2017 Lyell Lectures Paul Nelles enters the social and material world of the Vatican Library in the late sixteenth century. At the vanguard of the Counter-Reformation, the library gradually adapted to its new role as an instrument of papal policy and hub of ecclesiastical reform. The lectures locate the Vatican Library within a constellation of new state-sponsored collections in early modern Europe. Framed around the vibrant fresco cycles that graced the new library quarters constructed under Pope Sixtus V (1585-1590), the lectures visit specific episodes in sixteenth century cultural history to probe the dynamic of script and print within the space of the Vatican Library. Particular attention is given to the individuals, practices, and working tools that intersected with libraries in this period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"the-final-lyell-lecture-2017-will-take-place-at-5pm-on\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The final Lyell lecture 2017&nbsp;will take place at 5pm on:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Thursday May 18 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/whatson\/whats-on\/upcoming-events\/2017\/may\/popes-and-printers\">Urbs et orbis. Popes and printers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>More details on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/whatson\/whats-on\/upcoming-events\/2017\/may\/cardinals-and-councils\">University of Oxford website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eternal archive &#8211; Lyell Lectures 2017 Description Sixteenth-century Rome was a hub of scribal activity: work-a-day copyists, notaries, and highly skilled scribes (such as those employed in the Vatican Library) all made their living by the pen. This lecture situates the Vatican Library within the context of contemporary Roman scribal practice and the urban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56,43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16273,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16272\/revisions\/16273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}