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 …
Teaching with Special Collections & Archives at Maynooth University Library
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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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 …
Archaeological adventures in the Bolton Library
We're delighted to be able to share this fascinating post by Paul Novosel, with additional thanks to Dr Eleanor Giraud and the Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick.
Music Panel Recordings
We would like to thank Margaret Bent and Eleanor Giraud for giving us permission to share their papers. Margaret Bent (Oxford) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about music palaeography in the classroom. Eleanor Giraud (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick) speaks about music palaeography in the classroom (re-recorded).
UCL Summer School in Homer (2018)
The UCL Summer School in Homer is offering a rare opportunity to spend an intensive week studying the history of Latin scripts from the age of Augustus to the invention of printing, and acquiring palaeographical skills by transcribing texts written in a variety of these scripts. Where possible, the texts will have a Homeric theme, …
The Science of Medieval Pigments: Teaching the Materials Analysis of Manuscripts in the Undergraduate Classroom
Cynthia Turner Camp is Associate Professor of English and Graduate Coordinator at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, where she teaches Middle English and manuscript studies. She and her students blog about their adventures with manuscripts on the Hargrett Hours Project website, and you can also follow along on Twitter at @hargretthours. It can …
An Online Module for Teaching Manuscript Transcription with Blackboard Learn
Krista A. Murchison is a lecturer in medieval literature at Leiden University, in The Netherlands. Her research centers around the popular vernacular literature of England and the productive ways in which contemporary digital culture and medieval textual culture illuminate each other. Her experience with digital pedagogy includes leading her students’ production of a web edition …
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Can I have your autograph? Martin Luther’s Sprichwortersammlung (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Add. A. 92)
Alexander Peplow is a first-year DPhil student in History at Merton College, Oxford, and a member of the Teaching the Codex committee. Here, he writes about one of the Bodleian's Martin Luther autographs, which he encountered as a Master's student in Medieval Studies, and reflects on some of the techniques he used to analyse it. …
Writing with Goose Quills (Joint Blog Post/ Teachable Features 4)
Professor Henrike Lähnemann is based at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg during the summer, and she has been using a very practical method to teach her students about manuscript production. Click on the screenshot below to watch the video on the Freiburg website, and see Professor Lähnemann and her students produce their own documents.
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