University of Chicago Press’s free e-book this month is Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book. Of course, because all things free require an extra download, you’ll have to install Adobe’s Digital Editions (and provide your e-mail address, but think … Continue reading
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
I’m throwing the following up here, not because I think its the best, only, most excellent example of the form, but because I’ve been advocating letters to some in person. I could have circulated it via a palaeography-oriented list or … Continue reading
…to my King’s Gets Press comments. I’ve been informed that Miles Templeman was more likely not a second choice, but a choice that was made on second thought (as my friend so nicely put it). That is the original Today … Continue reading
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
I smile when I think of the following being written in the 50’s (okay, the English appeared in 1976, but I don’t have the original, so imagine it in French as published in 1958): As usual there is an important … Continue reading
A number of letters protesting the decision by King’s College London have been made available by the Comité international de paléographie latine. Medieval news has further details as well as some comments from David Ganz in an earlier piece. The … 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