Clotilde Lemarié
Clotilde's work centres on the history of medieval grammar and rhetoric and on the production and use of books in the Middle Ages. Her doctoral research investigates the dissemination and reception of manuscripts of De ornamentis verborum, a treatise on the figures of speech written by Marbode of Rennes (c. 1035 - 1123). In this project, she is examining the corpus of surviving twelfth- and thirteenth-century codices containing De ornamentis verborum as material evidence of the cultural and intellectual contexts in which Marbode's text was copied and used.
Clotilde holds an MA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from University College London, for which she was included in the Social and Historical Sciences Dean's List for academic excellence. She also holds degrees in Law and Chinese Studies.
Clotilde is a co-convenor of the London Society for Medieval Studies seminar at the Institute of Historical Research.
Palaeography and book history. Medieval grammar and rhetoric. Intellectual history in the Latin West (c. 800 - 1300). History of reading.
'Learning to read aloud in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: reconsidering the use of Marbode of Rennes’ De ornamentis verborum in surviving manuscripts', Universität Zürich, Seminar für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie der Antike, des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, 'Lectio communis - Vorlesen als Vermittlung und Vollzug' conference, 7 September 2023
‘A Biography of Former Phillipps MS 9455, from Medieval Italy to the Fire at the University Library of Leuven in May 1940’, Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute, 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies, session on 'Manuscripts of the Phillipps Collection II: Analyzing Acquisition and Dispersal', 12 May 2023
‘Grammar, Rhetoric and Learning Latin Syllable Quantity in the Twelfth Century: The Case of Düsseldorf, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS B 49', University of Cambridge, Medieval History Graduate Workshop, 16 June 2022