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SUMMARY:SIMS Online Lecture: Unfolding Concertina-Fold Almanacs: The Making of an Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Unfolding Concertina-Fold Almanacs: The Making of an 
 Exhibition\n\nSarah Griffin\, Lambeth Palace Library\, & Megan McNamee\, 
 University of Edinburgh\n\nFriday\, March 28\, 2025\, 12:00 - 1:30 pm 
 EST\n\nUnfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar\, an exhibition 
 presently on view at Lambeth Palace Library in London\, explores ideas 
 about time in the middle ages through the concertina-fold almanac\, a rare 
 and remarkable book type introduced in the fourteenth century. Concertinas 
 are formed of oblong parchment strips\, folded lengthwise and then in an 
 accordion or concertina pattern. Cuts in the parchment allow different 
 sections to be accessed without unfolding the entire sheet. People in 
 medieval Europe tracked time through planetary motion\, seasonal shift\, 
 historic events\, and religious celebrations. Concertina-fold almanacs 
 illuminate and align these varied cycles. In them\, time is vividly 
 expressed in colorful pictures\, poems\, tables\, and devices. Just 
 twenty-nine of these extremely fragile folded manuscripts are known to 
 survive\; the Lambeth exhibition brings a selection together\, for the 
 first time. In this talk\, Sarah Griffin\, curator of the exhibition\, and 
 Megan McNamee\, a collaborator\, will introduce the concertina corpus and 
 discuss the process of putting these frighteningly fragile\, fiendishly 
 complex\, and wonderfully dynamic little books on public view. They will 
 also share some of the tools they developed to make the concertinas and 
 temporalities that they embody understandable and exciting to seven- and 
 seventy-year olds alike.
ORGANIZER;CN="Lynn Ransom":MAILTO:lransom@upenn.edu
CATEGORIES:Lecture, SIMS
CONTACT;CN="Lynn Ransom":MAILTO:lransom@upenn.edu
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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URL:https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/kislak/unfolding-concertina-fold-almanacs
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