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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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 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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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 …
Our latest guest post comes from Sarah Laseke, who is a doctoral researcher at Leiden University working on scribal collaboration in fifteenth century manuscripts. Here, she writes about her free 8-week 'Palaeography for Beginners' course. The pleasure of looking at medieval manuscripts has not gone unnoticed – over the past few years, there has been an increased …
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We'd like to thank Thom Gobbitt for permission to reblog this fantastic post about learning to distinguish the hair and flesh sides of parchment:
In our latest guest post, Dr Teresa Webber of Trinity College, Cambridge outlines an interdisciplinary approach to course design in palaeography. The Teaching the Codex workshop in Oxford on 6th February 2016 fostered a dialogue across the disciplines about how elements of manuscript study pertinent to each field are currently being taught. Participants also reflected …
In the first of our series of guest posts, Dr Pauline Souleau discusses manuscripts as a tool for outreach. Manuscripts. It is not a word the average pupil hears every day in class. It is usually not a word secondary school students have in mind when considering higher education paths. Yet, manuscripts are a gold …
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We are pleased to launch our Call for Contributors, seeking guest bloggers to contribute to a series. Further exciting announcements about the future of Teaching the Codex will follow! NB: This is an archived post, with alt text added in 2024.
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