Panizzi Lectures

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The Panizzi Lectures are a series of annual lectures given at the British Library by "eminent scholars of the book" and named after the librarian Anthony Panizzi.[1] They are considered one of the major British bibliographical lecture series alongside the Sandars Lectures at the University of Cambridge and the Lyell Lectures at Oxford University.[2]

Lectures[]

  • 1985 D. F. McKenzie: Bibliography and the sociology of texts
  • 1986 T. A. Birrell: English monarchs and their books: from Henry VII to Charles II
  • 1987 K. W. Humphreys: A national library in theory and in practice
  • 1988 Giles Barber: Daphnis and Chloë: the markets and metamorphoses of an unknown bestseller
  • 1989 J. P. Gumbert: The Dutch and their books in the manuscript age
  • 1990 J. B. Trapp: Erasmus, Colet and More: the early Tudor humanists and their books
  • 1991  [de]: The English book in eighteenth-century Germany
  • 1992  [he]: Hebrew manuscripts of East and West: towards a comparative codicology
  • 1993 C. G. C. Tite: The manuscript library of Sir Robert Cotton
  • 1994 Iain Fenlon: Music, print and culture in early sixteenth-century Italy
  • 1995 David Woodward: Maps as prints in the Italian Renaissance: makers, distributors & consumers
  • 1996 Charles Burnett: The introduction of Arabic learning into England
  • 1997 Mirjam M. Foot: The history of bookbinding as a mirror of society
  • 1998 Roger Chartier: Publishing drama in early modern Europe
  • 1999 Glen Dudbridge: Lost books of medieval China
  • 2000 Michael Twyman: Breaking the mould: the first hundred years of lithography
  • 2001 Nicolas Barker: "Things not reveal'd": the mutual impact of idea and form in the transmission of verse 2000 B.C. – A.D. 1500
  • 2002 Christopher Ricks: T. S. Eliot's revisions After publication
  • 2003 Antony Griffiths: Prints for Books, French Book Illustration 1760–1800
  • 2004 María Luisa López-Vidriero: The polished cornerstones of the Temple: queenly libraries of the Enlightenment
  • 2005 Will Ryan: The magic of Russia
  • 2006 Christopher Pinney: The coming of photography to India
  • 2007 Jonathan J. G. Alexander: Italian Renaissance illuminated manuscripts in the collections of the British Library
  • 2008 Nicholas Pickwoad: Reading bindings: bindings as evidence of the culture and business of books
  • 2009 Anthony Grafton: The culture of correction in Renaissance Europe
  • 2010 James Raven: London booksites: Places of printing and publication before 1800
  • 2011 Robert D. Hume and Judith Milhous: The publication of plays in eighteenth-century London: playwrights, publishers, and the market
  • 2012 Brian Richardson: Women, books and communities in Renaissance Italy
  • 2013 Robert Darnton: Censors at work: Bourbon France, Imperialist India and Communist East Germany
  • 2014 Christopher de Hamel: The giant bibles of twelfth-century England
  • 2015 David McKitterick: The invention of rare books
  • 2016 Rowan Williams: British libraries: the literary world of post-Roman Britain
  • 2017 Germaine Greer: The poetry of Sappho
  • 2018 Laurie Maguire: The rhetoric of the page: reading blank space[3]
  • 2019 Ann Blair: Paratexts and Print in Renaissance Humanism[4]
  • 2020 Series postponed to 2021.[5]
  • 2021 Cynthia Brokaw: ‘Spreading Culture Throughout the Land’: Woodblock Publishing and Chinese Book Culture in the Early Modern Era.[5]
  • 2022 Jeffrey Hamburger.[5]
  • 2023 Henry Woudhuysen.[5]
  • 2024 Elizabeth McHenry.[5]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "The British Library Panizzi Lectures 1985–2014" (PDF). British Library.
  2. ^ J H Bowman (1 October 2012). British Librarianship and Information Work 2001–2005. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-4094-8506-3.
  3. ^ The Bibliographical Society (2018). "Panizzi Lectures 2018". Retrieved 12 Jan 2019.
  4. ^ The British Library (2019). "The Panizzi Lectures 2019". Retrieved 30 Mar 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d e The British Library (2021). "The Panizzi Lectures". Archived from the original on 24 Nov 2021. Retrieved 24 Nov 2021.
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