Pedagogical Approaches to Palaeography and Codicology
Anna Boeles Rowland is a DPhil student in Medieval History at Merton College, Oxford. Dr Pauline Souleau is a Lecturer in French at Somerville College, Balliol College, and Magdalen College, Oxford. In this post, they follow on from their paper at Teaching the Codex II (May 2017) and introduce the Manuscripts Outreach Network. The Project/The …
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Dr Mary Boyle is one of the co-founders of Teaching the Codex, and a Visiting Scholar at the Großbritannien-Zentrum at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Here we reblog her post on her summer project looking at marginalia in surviving copies of Sebastian Brant's 'Narrenschiff'.
Dr Samantha Blickhan is the IMLS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, where she works on crowdsourced text and audio transcription projects for Zooniverse.org. Her PhD (Royal Holloway, University of London, 2016) thesis focused on the paleography and notation of insular song from 1150-1300. Here, she writes about designing an undergraduate music paleography …
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Update 2019: Storify is no longer functioning; this post remains for archive purposes. Dr Colleen Curran has produced a Storify for our official Twitter hashtag #teachingcodex. With many thanks to Colleen, click on the taster-image below to see it all.
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Teaching the Codex II: further thoughts on the pedagogy of palaeography and codicology Follow us on Twitter: @teachingcodex, or via our official hashtag: #teachingcodex Saturday 6th May 2017 T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College 0915–0945: Registration 0945–1000: Opening remarks 1000–1130: Session I: a) Continental and Anglophone approaches to teaching palaeography and codicology Irene Ceccherini (Oxford) (chair) Marigold …
Dr Matthew Holford, Curator of the Medieval Manuscripts Cataloguing Project at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, explains the intricacies of catalogue descriptions of manuscripts. This post features both in our blog and our Teachable Features series. It is easy to forget that manuscript descriptions can be hard to understand. Once you are familiar with the …
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Sian Witherden is at Balliol College, Oxford, working on a DPhil thesis about touch in late Medieval English drama. Here, she writes about teaching medieval page design. In November 2016, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to take six very enthusiastic undergraduate students into the Bodleian Library’s Special Collections for a manuscript class …
[This entry is preserved for archival purposes. The Workshop for Manuscripts and Text Cultures is the the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures and their website can be found here.] Do you work on manuscripts or epigraphic texts from the ancient or pre-modern world? Ever wanted to get expert feedback on your work in …
The Workshop for Manuscript and Text Cultures at Queen’s (WMTC) is an interdisciplinary research platform that brings together specialists and students working on manuscript and text cultures of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean (Greece and Rome), ancient East and South Asia, and medieval Europe. ‘Manuscript and Text Cultures’ describes a phenomenon that begins when …
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