friend from the U.K. alerted me to two examples of press coverage of the King’s decision. The first runs 5:42 and is from the BBC’s Radio 4 programme Today. The palaeography chair is defended by Irving Finkel, an assistant keeper … Continue reading
Towards the end of last week on some electronic mailing lists and more publicly on Mary Beard’s blog, A Don’s Life, the intention of King’s College London to eliminate palaeography and the only chair in the UK in the subject … Continue reading
Via Jonas Wellendorf, a workshop on the media in which Old Norse literature was transmitted. The workshop is sub-project within the Swiss National Fund project ‘Mediality: Historical Perspectives’. Looks like a nice model for developing transhistorical discussions and frameworks. Some … Continue reading
Friday wrapped up a three day palaeography workshop with representatives covering many of the principle Nordic archives. Spearheaded by CMS’s Åslaug Ommundsen with Tuomas Heikkilä and Jan Brunius, papers dealt with specific details for tracing the origins and provenances of … Continue reading
few quotes to add to an earlier post on the Middle Ages, which, I think, contrast nicely with one another even if each does not specifically address the medieval. Brian Stock, Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the … Continue reading
ow we define the Middle Ages obviously affects the methods and modes of our inquiry, but it also reflects a range of inherited ways of looking at the past. Ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary (by whichever name one chooses). And while … Continue reading