Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29 has a bit of everything when it comes to hybridity, which makes it a very useful object with which to challenge students to think outside of the categories with which they are often presented in courses on the medieval period, such as medieval vs Early Modern, manuscript vs print, parchment vs paper, or verse vs prose.
Don’t mention the punctuation! Introducing materiality to text-based teaching contexts
How are students to know that medieval punctuation practices were vastly different from our own, if we don’t tell them, especially when they are encouraged to comment on punctuation by colleagues teaching more recent texts? Why wouldn’t they assume that the modern editions that they encounter aren’t fully faithful representations of some ‘original’ text?
2024 Hybridity Workshop Report
On 17th May 2024, Teaching the Codex hosted its fourth in-person event, a workshop on the theme of Hybridity, kindly sponsored by AMARC and hosted by Merton College, Oxford. Roughly half of the attendees presented, and half were there to contribute to the discussion. The rationale for the workshop was as follows: What constitutes hybridity …
Teaching the Codex 