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
• 2017 Germaine Greer: The poetry of Sappho
• 2018 Laurie Maguire: The rhetoric of the page: reading blank space[3]
• 2019 Ann Blair: Paratexts and Print in Renaissance Humanism[4]

See also

• E. A. Lowe Lectures
• McKenzie Lectures

References

1. "The British Library Panizzi Lectures 1985–2014" (PDF). British Library.
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.
3. The Bibliographical Society (2018). "Panizzi Lectures 2018". Retrieved 12 Jan 2019.
4. The British Library (2019). "The Panizzi Lectures 2019". Retrieved 30 Mar 2020.