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Christopher de Hamel, Dan Jones | Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts | Jaipur Literature Festival

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts : Christopher de Hamel & Dan Jones Christopher de Hamel is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was previously responsible for all sales of European illuminated manuscripts at Sotheby’s. His many books include Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, which won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Wolfson History Prize. Bestselling/ popular Books: Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts Dan Jones is a historian, broadcaster and award-winning journalist. His internationally bestselling works include The Plantagenets, The Templars and The Colour of Time. He has written and hosted dozens of TV shows, including the acclaimed Netflix/Channel 5 series Secrets of Great British Castles. He writes a weekly column for the London Evening Standard and his work also appears in newspapers and magazines such as the The Sunday Times, The Wall Street Journal and Smithsonian. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts A session on why medieval manuscripts matter. Historian Christopher de Hamel invites us into intimate conversations with 12 of the most famous manuscripts in existence by exploring what they tell us about nearly a 1,000 years of medieval history, and sometimes about the modern world too. De Hamel, who worked for Sotheby's for 25 years followed by Cambridge University where he is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, collectors and the international community of manuscript scholars, showing us how he and his fellows piece together evidence to reach unexpected conclusions. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts conveys the fascination and excitement of encountering some of the greatest works of art which, in the originals, are to most people completely inaccessible. At the end of this conversation with fellow medievalist Dan Jones, de Hamel will give us a new perspective on history and the process by which we come by knowledge. THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2019 sessions:https://bit.ly/2EJZeFi Links to the other session by Christopher de Hamel :    • Jenny Uglow, Christopher de Hamel | Jaipur...   Links to the other session by Dan Jones :    • Dan Jones, Christopher de Hamel | Jaipur L...   Social media links: Facebook:   / jaipurlitfes.  . Twitter:   / jaipurlitfest   Instagram:   / jaipurlitfest