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12-18 July 2026: CODEX hosts International Summer School in the History of the Book

On 12-18 July 2026, CODEX hosted an international summer school in Cluj. Eight tutors from Budapest, Cluj, Paris, Prague and Vienna, and sixteen students from Cambridge, Cluj, Dublin, Paris, Prague, and Vienna spent a week in Cluj and Alba Iulia studying medieval manuscripts and early modern printed books. There were courses on Greek Palaeography, provenance…

Congratulations, Dr Andrei Crișan!

On 9 July 2026, CODEX member Andrei Crișan defended with flying colours his doctoral thesis entitled Reading Wulfstan’s Works in Their Manuscript Context: A Study of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 201. The examination committee included Professors Rareș Moldovan (UBB Cluj, president), Adrian Papahagi (UBB Cluj, PhD supervisor), Winfried Rudolf (Univ. of Göttingen), Gabriele Cocco…

Carmen Oanea at IMC Leeds

On Monday, 6 July 2026, CODEX member Carmen Oanea gave a paper at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds. The paper, entitled “Manuscripts at Crossroads: The Case of Hybrid Books in the Early Modern Period” reflects Carmen’s research within our project “Medieval Books in the Early Modern Period: The Case of Cluj in the Sixteenth and…

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