Panizzi Lectures

The Panizzi Lectures are a series of annual lectures given at the British Library by "eminent scholars of the book" and named after the librarian Anthony Panizzi.^[1] They are considered one of the major British bibliographical lecture series alongside the Sandars Lectures at the University of Cambridge and the Lyell Lectures at Oxford University.^[2]

Lectures

1985 D. F. McKenzie: Bibliography and the sociology of texts
1986 T. A. Birrell: English monarchs and their books: from Henry VII to Charles II
1987 K. W. Humphreys: A national library in theory and in practice
1988 Giles Barber: Daphnis and Chloë: the markets and metamorphoses of an unknown bestseller
1989 J. P. Gumbert: The Dutch and their books in the manuscript age
1990 J. B. Trapp: Erasmus, Colet and More: the early Tudor humanists and their books
1991 Bernhard Fabian: The English book in eighteenth-century Germany
1992 Malachi Beit-Arié: Hebrew manuscripts of East and West: towards a comparative codicology
1993 C. G. C. Tite: The manuscript library of Sir Robert Cotton
1994 Iain Fenlon: Music, print and culture in early sixteenth-century Italy
1995 David Woodward: Maps as prints in the Italian Renaissance: makers, distributors & consumers
1996 Charles Burnett: The introduction of Arabic learning into England
1997 Mirjam M. Foot: The history of bookbinding as a mirror of society
1998 Roger Chartier: Publishing drama in early modern Europe
1999 Glen Dudbridge: Lost books of Medieval China
2000 Michael Twyman: Breaking the mould: the first hundred years of lithography
2001 Nicolas Barker: 'Things not reveal'd': the mutual impact of idea and form in the transmission of verse 2000 B.C. - A.D. 1500
2002 Christopher Ricks: T.S. Eliot's Revisions After Publication
2003 Antony Griffiths: Prints for Books, French Book Illustration 1760-1800
2004 María Luisa López-Vidriero: The Polished Cornerstones of the Temple: Queenly Libraries of the Enlightenment
2005 Will Ryan: The Magic of Russia
2006 Christopher Pinney: The coming of photography to India
2007 Jonathan J. G. Alexander: Italian Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts in the collections of the British Library
2008 Nicholas Pickwoad: Reading Bindings: Bindings as evidence of the culture and business of books
2009 Anthony Grafton: The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe
2010 James Raven: London Booksites: Places of Printing and Publication before 1800
2011 Robert D. Hume and Judith Milhous: The publication of plays in eighteenth-century London: playwrights, publishers, and the market
2012 Brian Richardson: Women, Books and Communities in Renaissance Italy
2013 Robert Darnton: Censors at Work: Bourbon France, Imperialist India and Communist East Germany
2014 Christopher de Hamel: The Giant Bibles of twelfth-century England
2015 David McKitterick: The invention of rare books
2016 Rowan Williams: British Libraries: the literary world of post-Roman Britain

References

^ "The British Library Panizzi Lectures 1985–2014" (PDF). British Library.
^ J H Bowman (1 October 2012). British Librarianship and Information Work 2001–2005. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-4094-8506-3.

[1] "The British Library Panizzi Lectures 1985–2014" (PDF). British Library.

[Bowman2012-2] J H Bowman (1 October 2012). British Librarianship and Information Work 2001–2005. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-4094-8506-3.

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