Pedagogical Approaches to Palaeography and Codicology
Elin Andersson received her PhD in Latin at Stockholm University in 2011. Her research centres around texts related to the medieval Brigittine order. Since 2016, she has worked at the National Library of Sweden as curator of the two rare book collections in Strängnäs, those of the Cathedral Library and of the Rogge Library. Follow …
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Dr Sarah Griffin is a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Teaching Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Cabinet is well known across Oxford for the three-dimensional models of museum objects that we create to promote teaching with material culture. While these models are an effective way to get our …
Dr Tristan Franklinos is one of the founders of Teaching the Codex. He is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Trinity College, Oxford. A marvellous collaboration between the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB), Wolfenbüttel was launched this week. Manuscripts from the German-speaking lands held in …
Charlie Farquharson-Roberts is a Latin teacher and private tutor, but a medievalist at heart. She once wrote an MPhil thesis on the Venerable Bede’s Latin hymns. With small children these days, she finds herself chair of the PTA. Find her on twitter @camlatintutor. I have spent this year gainfully unemployed from Latin teaching in schools …
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Dr Chantal Kobel is a postdoctoral O’Donovan scholar in the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Her current project involves the editing of a series of obscure texts preserved in the late medieval composite manuscript TCD H.3.18 (1337), for which she is also producing a descriptive catalogue of its contents. Dr Kobel …
Barbara McCormack is Special Collections Librarian at Maynooth University. She teaches on the MA Historical Archives, a programme concerned with the principles, attitudes and skills necessary for the professional management of archival collections. As Special Collections Librarian at Maynooth University Library I am in the enviable position of curating the historical collections of St Patrick’s …
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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 …
