# Event Details - **Event Name**: The Fine Script - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 31 Aug, 2026 at 10:00 am – Tue, 01 Sep, 2026 at 03:30 pm (+02:00) - **Event Description**: Conference exploring comparative approaches to legal marginalia circulating in Europe and the Middle East between 1100 and 1700About this EventThis 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.Agenda🕑: 10:00 AMWelcome and introduction ‘Reading the Fine Script’Host: Héléna D.M. Lagréou (University College Dublin)🕑: 10:20 AMThe toolbox: functional marginalia between visual and written rhetoricHost: Eachiarn Erbnen (University College Dublin)Info: 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)’ 🕑: 11:40 AMCoffee Break🕑: 12:00 PMScribes as editors: processing and transforming legal materialHost: Stefan Drechsler (University of Bergen)Info: Stefan Drechsler (University of Bergen), ‘The Marginal Notes of AM 309 fol.: Indications of Use, Textual Development, and Codicological Units’ Andrew Ó Donnghaile (University College Dublin), ‘⁊ diultaim iat, mar aderid in drong dligthe-so sis: the voices of scribes and jurists in late medieval Irish legal manuscripts’🕑: 01:20 PMLunch Break🕑: 02:30 PMAggregating building blocks: movable knowledge across manuscriptsHost: Jesús R. Velasco (Yale University)Info: Jesús R. Velasco (Yale University), ‘Glossing as a Model Kit’ Gero Dolezalek (University of Leipzig), ‘Cross References, added to Western Manuscripts of Roman Law’🕑: 03:50 PMCoffee Break🕑: 04:10 PMOverlapping spaces: coexisting environments within the pageHost: Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge)Info: Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge), ‘Writing on the Verso of Medieval Arabic Documents’ Sarah White (University of Nottingham), ‘Between Text and Practice: Marginalia in English Manuscripts of the Ordines’🕑: 05:30 PMApéritif Dinatoire 🕑: 09:30 AMMorning Coffee 🕑: 09:50 AMShort Welcome and introduction Host: Héléna D.M. Lagréou (University College Dublin)🕑: 10:10 AMDialogue in time: temporal layers in search of authority through marginaliaHost: Zachary Chitwood (University LMU Munchen)Info: Zachary Chitwood (University LMU Munchen), ‘Digital Approaches to Editing the Hexabiblos of Constantine Harmenopoulos (1345) and Its Scholia’ Jaqueline Bremmer (University KU Leuven), ‘Constructing legal authority in the glossed Digestum vetus, c. 1200–1300’🕑: 11:30 AMCoffee Break🕑: 11:50 AMThe poetics of law: artificiality of legal writing in genre-bending marginaliaHost: Chantal Kobel (Maynooth University)Info: Chantal Kobel (Maynooth University), ‘Do fubhtad borb ⁊ ainēolech ‘to frighten off the rude and ignorant’: erudition in the margins of Copenhagen MS 261B’ Fangzhe Qiu (University College Dublin), ‘More than just a rann: marginal verses in Irish legal manuscripts’🕑: 01:10 PMLunch Break🕑: 02:30 PMClosing Panel - Legal coexistence Host: Yasmine Beale-Rivaya (Texas State University)Info: Yasmine Beale-Rivaya (Texas State University), ‘Writing Authority in the Margins: Marginalia, Orality, and Multilingual Legal Culture in Medieval Iberia’ 🕑: 03:10 PMClosing Remarks and send off - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/paris/the-fine-script/100001986000857025 - **Event Categories**: business, conferences - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Age Limit: all_ages - Duration: 5 hours 30 minutes - Location: Irish Cultural Centre - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Paris - **state**: IL - **country**: France - **location**: Irish Cultural Centre - **lat**: 48.8440452 - **long**: 2.3459482 - **full address**: Irish Cultural Centre, 5 Rue des Irlandais, Paris, France ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: The Fine Script - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/04d261fcf329af796711b7bd64b821dce41ac4d6fd1426f193a7ffb95f7dcbdc-rimg-w1200-h595-dc8b2c16-gmir.jpg?v=1778382566 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is The Fine Script being held? - **A:** The Fine Script takes place on Mon, 31 Aug, 2026 at 10:00 am to Tue, 01 Sep, 2026 at 03:30 pm at Irish Cultural Centre, 5 Rue des Irlandais, Paris, France. - **Q**: Who is organizing The Fine Script? - **A:** The Fine Script is organized by Héléna D.M. Lagréou. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** The Fine Script is ideal for professionals, entrepreneurs, startup founders, and networking enthusiasts eager to grow their connections. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Paris, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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