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Insights and Perspectives on a research-led teaching format in Medieval German Literature
We're pleased to share Dr Balázs J. Nemes's presentation at the University of Freiburg's Humanities and Social Sciences colloquium (HUMSS) on 6 July 2020. Dr Nemes is a Junior Fellow in Medieval German Literature at Freiburg. Dr Stephen Mossman, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester, has translated this outline of the …
Get involved: Submit a Teachable Feature!
The more Teachable Features we can offer, the more valuable this series will be as a resource. We'd also like to broaden the range of institutions whose collections are featured here. If you'd like to propose a Teachable Feature, please fill in the form below: Guidelines for Posts A Teachable Feature can be as short …
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Teaching Palaeography Before and After Coronavirus
Manuscripts Under Lockdown 3: Dr Leonor Zozaya is a lecturer in the Historic Sciences Department at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She is a member of the Centre of History of Society and Culture in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra. You can find more about her …
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Goatskin in the garden: how does it feel to prepare your own parchment?
Manuscripts Under Lockdown 2: Sara Charles is a PhD student at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Her research focuses on medieval martyrologies from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries. She also conducts personal research into the production of manuscripts, exploring parchment making, ink making and illumination. She shares her findings on her …
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The lost library of Canterbury Cathedral: Digital resources to reunite manuscripts and fragments
Manuscripts Under Lockdown 1: Dr Alison Ray has worked since 2018 as Assistant Archivist at Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library, having previously worked at the British Library as Digitisation and Web Curatorial Officer with The Polonsky Foundation England and France, 700-1200 digitisation project. Follow Dr Ray on Twitter. The recent growth of palaeographical and codicological …
The Open Medieval Editions by Students (TOMES) Project: An Anthology by and for Students (and Others!)
This post is created by the team behind the TOMES project, which is funded by a Comenius Grant from The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research/NRO. The project lead, Dr Murchison, is an assistant professor (UD) in medieval English and French literature at Leiden University, in The Netherlands. Her research centers around the popular vernacular literature …
The School Room Scriptorium: Giving a Workshop on Medieval Scriptoria in a Primary School
Eleanor Baker is a second year DPhil student at St John’s College, Oxford. Her research looks at how codex production processes influenced middle English literature between 1300-1550. She currently works as the Teaching and Careers officer at Oxford’s Faculty of English, and runs the Living Libraries podcast with fellow DPhil student Alex Peplow. You can …
2019 Wakelet Collection [Storify replacement]
Click on the image below to see our Wakelet collection of all the tweets from our hashtag #teachingcodex at the 2019 colloquium, Decentring the Codex, or click to download a PDF.
Trimming and Compilation, MS. CUL, Dd.10.44 (Joint Blog Post/ Teachable Features 5)
Hope Doherty explains what the trimming in CUL MS Dd.10.44 can tell us about the way it was put together as a codex. Hope is in the first year of a PhD in Medieval English Literature at Durham University, focusing her research on the interaction between theology and mental illness in Marian writing. She completed …
