Laboratorio per lo studio del libro antico #libant

04/03/2026

19/11/2025

19/11/2025

Liturgical books were undoubtedly the most common books of the Middle Ages, and the ones whose contents reached the largest number of people. This applies especially to their music, the reception and experience of which did not require competence in Latin. Simultaneously, they were particularly vulnerable to the ravages of time, be it upheavals like the suppression of monasteries or Reformation movements, or more mundane obsolescence and decay. As a result, scholarly understanding of medieval liturgical practices, the books on which these practices were based, and the relationship between the two, remains far from complete.

24/10/2025

With pre-conference programme on 12 November 2025 University of Helsinki (City Centre Campus) and the National Library of Finland, Helsinki, Finland.

24/10/2025

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/books-of-the-medieval-parish-church/books-music-and-the-liturgical-life-of-the-medieval-church-13-14-november-2025

Un importante appuntamento per lo studio dei manoscritti medievali

With pre-conference programme on 12 November 2025 University of Helsinki (City Centre Campus) and the National Library of Finland, Helsinki, Finland.

02/07/2025

Royal Netherlands Institute di Roma per la Summer School. Schools in transition (16-22 June 2025)
Lidia Buono, Methods and Practices
of Teaching in Monastic Schools in the Early Medieval West

27/03/2025

Con i ragazzi del Martino Filetico di Ferentino e le loro insegnanti per un interessante progetto di studio e approfondimento, anche sui manoscritti, della ricca produzione poetica dell'umanista di origine ciociara Martino Filetico. Bravissimi ragazzi!

12/02/2025

Novità editoriale!
Esce l’annata 22-2024 della Rivista “Segno e Testo”, International journal of manuscripts and text transmission.
Visita lo shop del CISAM per scoprire l’indice dei saggi contenuti nel volume: https://shop.cisam.org/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1279
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19/06/2024

27/05/2024

EuARe 2024 Palermo. May 20-23, 2024
Author Meets Critique: Medioevo monastico nello specchio dei libri, Lidia Buono (CISAM, 2023)
In the context of the irreversible crisis of the socio-economic and cultural structures on which it was based the Western Roman Empire imposed the decisive role of monasticism in the process of transmission of the textual and book heritage of classical antiquity to the Middle Ages and the modern age. The volume focuses on the monastic experience in its relationship with books and culture. The introductory chapters are dedicated to the conflict between paganism and Christianity, to the genesis of the movement Western monastic, to the scriptorium and the library, to the Carolingian reform, also in relation to the school experience. The second part illustrates the training program adopted in monasteries, gradually organized according to the epistemological perspective of the artes liberales. The discussion is based on the idea of offering a cross-section of monastic culture through the dialogue between manuscripts and literary sources. The book presents an extensive bibliographical material.