We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for "Opening the Sacred Text: Meaning, Materiality, Historiography". Bringing together scholars from around the world, we will explore the decorative frontispieces and so-called carpet pages that are a remarkable feature of manuscripts from diverse cultures, including Islam, Judaism and Christianity.

The conference will be online, via Zoom, and we'll send out a Zoom link to registered participants nearer the time.

The conference will run over three days (Monday 21 February 2022 – Wednesday 23 February 2022), with a 2pm GMT start each day. We hope that the timing and the online format will make the conference accessible to as many people as possible.

For an up-to-date list of speakers, please visit:

http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/carpet-pages/

Update: the programme is now online: http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/programme/

Very much looking forward to seeing you there,

Stewart J. Brookes and Julie Harris