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DESCRIPTION:Paul Vinhage (Cornell University)\n\n"Which Came First\, the Le
 tter or the Sound? Grammatical Theory and Practice in the Early Middle Age
 s"\n\nThis lecture will trace the trajectory of grammatical theory and pra
 ctice concerning vocal utterances (voces) and their written signs (literae
 ) from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Elite writers\, readers\, 
 and speakers of Latin in Antiquity shared a highly regulated\, yet living 
 and native\, linguistic community. Grammarians of this period were keen to
  note changes in pronunciation\, and by extension orthography. The relatio
 n between pronunciation and orthography during antiquity was largely trans
 parent and uncontested: letters were used to encode sound in a one-to-one 
 relationship. In this system\, the primary phenomenon of speech constitute
 s the ground upon which letters are based\; the basic equation of letter t
 o sound\, however\, breaks down in the late sixth century\, when Cassiodor
 us composes his De orthographia for his bewildered monks\, who can neither
  pronounce what they read\, nor write what they hear. By the late eighth c
 entury\, orthography and pronunciation had diverged even more. To regulate
  and control the production of written and spoken Latin\, scribes and scho
 lars in the Carolingian court\, including Alcuin and Peter of Pisa\, produ
 ced novel technical apparatus within manuscripts. The technics of Latin gr
 ammatical manuscripts resituate letters as the source of vocal utterance. 
 Regulated\, grammatical speech becomes a kind of reading or writing from a
 n exemplar stored on the page or in the mind. Through an examination of gr
 ammatical tracts from the ninth century\, this lecture explores the theore
 tical and practical concerns of early medieval grammarians\, who grounded 
 their discipline in written letters rather than spoken sound.\n\nPaul Vinh
 age is a postdoctoral associate with the Medieval Studies Program and desc
 riber of manuscripts. In August 2022 he defended his dissertation\, “Scr
 ibal Technics in the Early Middle Ages\,” at Cornell University. He also
  holds a Diploma in Manuscript Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Me
 dieval Studies. He is currently working on an edition of an anonymous comm
 entary of Donatus’ Ars minor found in Valenciennes\, Bibliothèque Munic
 ipale\, MS 413. With Thomas Sawyer\, he is publishing a translation with c
 ommentary of “Michael of Cornwall’s First Invective against Henry of A
 vranches” in the 2023 issue of The Journal of Medieval Latin. \n\n------
 --------------\n\nThe Cornell Medieval Studies Program presents a series o
 f lectures on a wide range of medieval topics. All lectures take place on 
 Tuesdays at 4:45pm.\n\nCosponsored by the Society for the Humanities
LOCATION:AD White\, Guerlac Room
SUMMARY: Medieval Studies Lecture Series: Paul Vinhage\, Cornell '22
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DESCRIPTION:Paul Vinhage (Cornell University)\n\n"Which Came First\, the Le
 tter or the Sound? Grammatical Theory and Practice in the Early Middle Age
 s"\n\nThis lecture will trace the trajectory of grammatical theory and pra
 ctice concerning vocal utterances (voces) and their written signs (literae
 ) from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Elite writers\, readers\, 
 and speakers of Latin in Antiquity shared a highly regulated\, yet living 
 and native\, linguistic community. Grammarians of this period were keen to
  note changes in pronunciation\, and by extension orthography. The relatio
 n between pronunciation and orthography during antiquity was largely trans
 parent and uncontested: letters were used to encode sound in a one-to-one 
 relationship. In this system\, the primary phenomenon of speech constitute
 s the ground upon which letters are based\; the basic equation of letter t
 o sound\, however\, breaks down in the late sixth century\, when Cassiodor
 us composes his De orthographia for his bewildered monks\, who can neither
  pronounce what they read\, nor write what they hear. By the late eighth c
 entury\, orthography and pronunciation had diverged even more. To regulate
  and control the production of written and spoken Latin\, scribes and scho
 lars in the Carolingian court\, including Alcuin and Peter of Pisa\, produ
 ced novel technical apparatus within manuscripts. The technics of Latin gr
 ammatical manuscripts resituate letters as the source of vocal utterance. 
 Regulated\, grammatical speech becomes a kind of reading or writing from a
 n exemplar stored on the page or in the mind. Through an examination of gr
 ammatical tracts from the ninth century\, this lecture explores the theore
 tical and practical concerns of early medieval grammarians\, who grounded 
 their discipline in written letters rather than spoken sound.\n\nPaul Vinh
 age is a postdoctoral associate with the Medieval Studies Program and desc
 riber of manuscripts. In August 2022 he defended his dissertation\, “Scr
 ibal Technics in the Early Middle Ages\,” at Cornell University. He also
  holds a Diploma in Manuscript Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Me
 dieval Studies. He is currently working on an edition of an anonymous comm
 entary of Donatus’ Ars minor found in Valenciennes\, Bibliothèque Munic
 ipale\, MS 413. With Thomas Sawyer\, he is publishing a translation with c
 ommentary of “Michael of Cornwall’s First Invective against Henry of A
 vranches” in the 2023 issue of The Journal of Medieval Latin. \n\n------
 --------------\n\nThe Cornell Medieval Studies Program presents a series o
 f lectures on a wide range of medieval topics. All lectures take place on 
 Tuesdays at 4:45pm.\n\nCosponsored by the Society for the Humanities
LOCATION:AD White\, Guerlac Room
SUMMARY: Medieval Studies Lecture Series: Paul Vinhage\, Cornell '22
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/paul_vinhage_which_came_firs
 t_the_letter_or_the_sound_grammatical_theory_and_practice_in_the_early_mid
 dle_ages
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