More better palaeography

The King’s College debate has produced (at least on the facebook group) many comments that reflect how people view palaeography as a textual discipline, where they think it is going and what practitioners might do to ensure its continuation. As … Continue reading

Killing Palaeography

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

Bergen Fragment Workshop

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