The Fine Script
Conference exploring comparative approaches to legal marginalia circulating in Europe and the Middle East between 1100 and 1700
This event can be attended in-person at the Centre Culturel Irlandais or online (the zoom link will be circulated via email prior to the event).
We welcome you to this conference set in Paris at the Centre Culture Irlandais between the 31st of August and the 1st of September 2026 to explore and examine with international researchers hands from the past through their legal marginalia from 1100 to 1700. This conference will connect the present with the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period—placing Ireland within Europe, and Europe in its relationship with the Middle East and the Byzantine Sphere.
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Highlights
- 1 day 5 hours
- all ages
- In person
Location
Irish Cultural Centre
5 Rue des Irlandais
75005 Paris
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Agenda
Welcome and introduction ‘Reading the Fine Script’
The toolbox: functional marginalia between visual and written rhetoric
Eachiarn Erbnen (University College Dublin), ‘Marginalia in the Copy of O’Davoren’s Glossary from TCD MS 1317 (H2.15b): Types and Choices’ Maria Alessandra Bilotta (UAb – IEM-NOVA/FCSH), ‘Law in the Margins: Annotating and Visualising Legal Knowledge in Illuminated Legal Manuscripts from Southern France (13th–14th Centuries)’