Pedagogical Approaches to Palaeography and Codicology
We are very grateful to Professor David d'Avray FBA (UCL) for allowing us to post this schema of the UCL and joint UCL-King's Palaeography and Diplomatic teaching. He outlines the teaching structure as follows: The Palaeography and Diplomatic Teaching at UCL has three strands, though they are intertwined. Dr Marigold Norbye teaches a seminar course of …
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We are delighted to announce our speakers for the panel on Continental and Anglophone Approaches to Palaeography and Codicology at the Teaching the Codex colloquium in 2017. Dr Irene Ceccherini, Lyell-Bodleian Research Fellow in Manuscript Studies, and Dilts Research Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford. Follow her on Twitter here. Dr Daniel Sawyer, a postdoctoral researcher in …
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We are pleased to announce the speakers for our panel on palaeography and outreach, 'Taking Palaeography Further: schools, outreach, and the general public'. Anna Boeles Rowland, a DPhil student in Medieval History at Merton College, Oxford. Follow her on Twitter here. Sarah Laseke, who is a PhD researcher at Leiden University, as well as AHRC Doctoral …
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Colleen Curran recently submitted her PhD in Palaeography & Manuscript Studies at King’s College London on the morphology of Insular Caroline in tenth-century Britain. She writes here about her pilot scheme to introduce manuscript studies to undergraduate students. In September 2016, I organized and taught a pilot scheme to introduce English undergraduates at King’s College London …
Dr Margaret Bent, who is an Emeritus Fellow at All Souls' College, Oxford. Dr Eleanor Giraud, of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. Follow her on Twitter here. Dr Henry Hope, who is based at the Institut für Musikwissenschaft at the University of Bern. Follow him on Twitter …
We are delighted to announce the speakers for our History of Art panel at the 2017 Teaching the Codex colloquium. Dr Spike Bucklow, Senior Research Scientist at the the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. Dr Emily Guerry, who is a lecturer in History at the University of Kent. Follow her on Twitter here. …
Dr Johanna Green is a lecturer in Book History and Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow. Her PhD (English Language, University of Glasgow 2012) focused on a palaeographical study of the textual division and subordination of the Exeter Book manuscript. Here, she tells us about the first of two sessions she led for the …
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We are pleased to announce that a follow-up colloquium will be taking place on 6th May 2017. Further information to follow.
This month, Naomi Gardom writes about teaching herself palaeographical skills for a project on Merton MS 95. Naomi is a third-year undergraduate historian at Merton College, Oxford, and received funding from the College for her project. Meeting a manuscript for the first time is a unique experience, similar only to going on a blind date. …
September's guest blog post comes from Dr Emily Chow-Kambitsch, and ties in with the recent cinema release of the new 'Ben-Hur' film. Dr. Chow-Kambitsch is a recent graduate of University College London. Her research focuses on representations of antiquity in historical fiction and their reception in popular culture. This month has seen the return of Ben-Hur to …
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