On the Teaching the Codex blog, you will find updates about the next steps for the Teaching the Codex initiative, as well as guest blog posts. We are always keen to hear from new guest bloggers – please get in touch if you’d like to be involved. We welcome contributions on areas we haven’t covered, as well as different approaches to the kinds of topics addressed below, particularly new additions to our three series: Schools and Manuscripts, Digital Resources, or Manuscripts Under Lockdown.
Posts
2022
Mulaika Hijjas and Jessica Rahardjo on their online course in Jawi
2021
David Ganz on the early history of palaeography teaching in Oxford
Aysha Strachen traces the journey of the Bodleian’s manuscript of Arnold von Harff’s Reisebericht
Mariken Teeuwen introduces a virtual exhibition highlighting manuscript margins
Sebastian Dows-Miller introduces the Merton Beasts project
2020
Jonathan Homrighausen on incorporating manuscripts into an introductory Hebrew Bible course
Luciana Cioca introduces the Rise Project
Balázs J. Nemes‘s presentation on research-led teaching at Freiburg’s HUMSS Colloquium
Leonor Zozaya describes teaching palaeography online during COVID-19 (translated by Angela Boyle) (Spanish version originally posted at paleografia.hypotheses.org)
Sara Charles prepares her own goatskin parchment at home
Alison Ray on using digital resources to reunite lost libraries
2019
Eleanor Baker creates a school room scriptorium
Hope Doherty on trimming and compilation in Cambridge UL, MS Dd.10.44
Elin Andersson on a quill-use workshop with nine-year-olds in Strägnäs, Sweden (Schools and Manuscripts Series)
Charlie Farquharson-Roberts on bringing manuscripts to the primary school classroom (Schools and Manuscripts Series)
2018
Chantal Kobel on teaching Irish palaeography
Barbara McCormack on teaching with special collections and archives at Maynooth University Library
Paul Novosel’s archaeological adventures in the Bolton Library (originally posted at emslimerick.wordpress.com)
Cynthia Turner Camp on teaching the materials analysis of manuscripts in the undergraduate classroom (Hargrett Hours Project)
Krista A. Murchison on her Blackboard module for teaching transcription
2017
Henrike Lähnemann demonstrates writing with goose quills (video link to Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Anna Boeles Rowland and Pauline Souleau launch the Manuscripts Outreach Network (Schools and Manuscripts Series)
Mary Boyle on marginalia in the Ship of Fools (research update, originally posted at maryrboyle.wordpress.com)
Samantha Blickhan on ‘doing’ and ‘teaching’ music paleography
Matthew Holford on reading and understanding catalogue descriptions
Sian Witherden on teaching medieval page design
David d’Avray outlines the palaeography and diplomatic teaching at UCL
2016
Colleen Curran on introducing undergraduates to manuscript studies
Johanna Green on practical palaeography with modern scribes
Naomi Gardom on learning by doing
Emily Chow-Kambitsch on Ben Hur and palaeography
Sarah Laseke on a public engagement approach to teaching palaeography
Thom Gobbitt on learning to distinguish flesh side/ hair side of parchment (originally posted at thomgobbitt.wordpress.com)
Teresa Webber on interdisciplinary course design in palaeography
Pauline Souleau on outreach and the perks of the manuscript (Schools and Manuscripts Series)
Henrike Lähnemann on fundamental historical skills training in Britain (originally posted at hsozkult.de)
2015
Eva Schlotheuber on source criticism in the digital age (translated by Mary Boyle) (original German version first posted at hsozkult.de)
Teaching the Codex Updates
Launch of the Manuscripts Outreach Network (MON)
Teaching the Codex 