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
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
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
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