Any day there should be something to report from King’s, but every day nothing surfaces. Earlier this week a letter from David Ganz was posted on the facebook page (which can be viewed without a facebook account, I think). Like … Continue reading
An inferior version of the most talked about unpublished homiliary to be found in a recently discovered Old English-Latin manuscript fragment is now available! Retired and renowned scholars (well at least one retired and renowned, maybe two, and others more … Continue reading
n intelligent engagement with the past is a critical component for a working public sphere. The totalitarian state is free to use its vision of history to impose its ideological orthodoxy, or alternatively, lacking any voice to the contrary, to … Continue reading
Found some time to play around with the rss-dragon. Hopefully, more changes on the way, but the learning is slow. I recognize that this does not really qualify as ‘news’, but if Ricky Martin’s announcement (suprise!) can make headlines, then … Continue reading
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
Almost a month after its initial appearance, Mary Beard’s post continues (or continued) to receive comments, most recently one by Teresa Webber, a prominent and influential palaeographer at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she repeats comments to a THE piece. In … Continue reading