Get involved: Blog for us!

Teaching the Codex runs an occasional blog series, and we are always looking for new contributors. If you are interested in participating, please email us with a brief outline of your post or use the contact form below. We are always keen to broaden the scope of our blog, and we would like to hear from anyone involved in the learning or teaching of palaeography and codicology. This means that we are interested in what you have to say, whether you have been teaching manuscript studies for years, whether you are currently taking a course (inside or outside a traditional setting), whether you are self-taught, or making the switch from student to teacher, whether you are trialling a new approach to teaching, or whether you want to reflect on successful pedagogical strategies. You certainly don’t need an institutional affiliation to write for us! We are also keen for the blog to explore languages and traditions which have not been represented here so far.

Suggested topics:

• Digital possibilities (or limitations) in manuscript pedagogy
• Your own reflections on learning or teaching palaeography or codicology
• Discipline-specific perspectives
• Examples of good practice
• Useful resources
• Manuscript studies in an outreach context

If you would like to propose a blog post, please fill in the form below.

Contact Form

Guidelines for Posts

• Posts should be submitted as a Word document (other mainstream word processing documents, e.g. Pages, LibreOffice, are also acceptable).
• Our website is powered by WordPress, which supports footnoting, so please put any offline references into footnotes.
• Online references will appear in the main text as hyperlinks. Please put the link in square brackets after the relevant reference.
• We encourage you to include images! Please indicate where images are to be placed, and how they are to be captioned. Many libraries are very happy to allow online use of images, but please obtain any necessary permissions. Please send any images as separate files.
• Please include a one or two sentence bio at the start of your post.
• A more detailed PDF guide is available.

Page last updated July 2024.