William Schipper

Position

Full Professor

Old English; Carolingian studies; Biblical commentaries; Hrabanus Maurus

Articles and Book Chapters

��Unpublished� Biblical Commentaries by Hrabanus Maurus.� Journal of Medieval Latin, vol. 27, 2017, pp. 223-301.
�Secretive Bodies and Passionate Souls: Transgressive Sexuality among the Carolingians.� Conjunctions of Mind, Soul and Body from Plato to the Enlightenment, edited by Danijela Kambaskovic, Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 15, Springer, 2014, pp. 173-199.
�Bede�s Commentary on the Apocalypse and the Carolingians.� Das spätkarolingische Fragment eines illustrierten Apokalypse-Kommentars in der Mainzer Stadtbibliothek: Bilanz einer interdisciplinären Annäherung, edited by Annelen Ottermann. Veröffentlichen der Bibliotheken der Stadt Mainz 60, Landeshauptstadt Mainz, 2014, pp. 148-171.
�The Mainz Martinus Bibliothek Bifolium (D/378) of Hrabanus�s De rerum naturis and its Relatives,� in Bibliotheca S.Martini Moguntina: Alte Bücher � Neue Funde, ed. Helmut Hinkel. Publikationen Bistum Mainz, Zeidler, 2012, pp. 87-103.

Conference Presentations and Lectures

�The Hermeneutic Mind: Hrabanus Maurus and his Biblical Commentaries.� Keynote address, Atlantic Medieval Association, 3 Oct. 2015, University of Prince Enward Island, Canada.
�Hrabanus Maurus�s Unpublished Biblical Commentaries." 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 8 May 2014, Western Michigan University, USA.
�Changing Views: A New Ninth-Century Fragment of Hrabanus Maurus�s De rerum naturis and Its Implications.� 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies. May 11, 2012, Western Michigan University, USA.
�Bede�s Commentary on the Apocalypse and Carolingian Commentaries,� Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek Mainz, 30 November 2012, Mainz, Germany.
�Some implications of the newly discovered fragment of Bede�s commentary on the Apocalypse.� Faculty of Arts, 27 November 2012, University of Winchester, UK.
�Manuscript Fragments.� Invited lecture to the Faculty of Humanities, Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, 16 April 2012, Urbino, Italy.
�The Early Transmission of De rerum naturis and the newly discovered Mainz fragment.� Martinus-Biblothek, Mainz, 7 July 2011, Mainz, Germany.
�Hrabanus Maurus and the Clavis Melitonis.� Canadian Society of Medievalists Conference, 31 May 2010, Montreal, Canada.

Public Seminars

�Hrabanus�s Confiscated Libellum and Sources for His Encyclopedia.� Medieval and Early Modern Lecture Series, 26 March 2018.
�Hrabanus Maurus�s Commentary on Acts.� Research Seminar, Department of Religious Studies, 91��ɫ, 15 April 2016.
�Hrabanus�s Unpublished Biblical Commentaries.� Research Seminar, Department of Religious Studies, 91��ɫ, 11 April 2015.
�An Early illustrated copy of the venerable Bede�s Expositio Apocalypseos: A recent discovery, a problem, and a solution.� Research Seminar, Department of Religious Studies, 91��ɫ, 28 March 2012.
�Some Problems Editing Hrabanus Maurus�s De rerum naturis.� Seminar at the Mittellateinische Institut, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany, 6 April 2012.

Critical edition of Hrabanus Maurus, De rerum naturis (theological encyclopedia, compiled between 843 and 846; length ca. 1200 pages; to appear in 2 volumes in the series Corpus Christianorum, Series medieavalis)
Critical edition of Tractatus Rabani supra Actuum Apostolorum (commentary ascribed to Hrabanus Maurus; under consideration, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies Publications, Toronto)

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