The Production and Use of English Manusripts 1060-1220 is an AHRC supported project directed by Dr Mary Swan, Professor Elaine Treharne, Dr Orietta Da Rold and Dr Jo Story with Dr Takako Kato serving as research associate. The projected hosted … Continue reading
The Staffordshire hoard will stay in the region where it was found and be housed in the Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent museums. The full story in The Guardian. In other news, a thorough examination and dating of the inscription appears to … Continue reading
We, that is the Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies, are running a two-week summer course in Bergen in August on the theme “Past and Present in the Middle Ages”. We hope to get PhD students working on how the Middle … Continue reading
ot much you can say really. The following story from Inside Higher Ed lays out institutions authorizing layoffs of tenured faculty without declaring financial exigency. It’s hard not to see this as a backdoor way of eliminating tenure, or rather … Continue reading
One of the better caveats about identifying the animal from which parchment comes warns that what might appear as characteristic of support type, may be characteristic of preparation (expressed for example in this book). And even the renowned Neil Ker … Continue reading