Pedagogical Approaches to Palaeography and Codicology
This month we will be taking a short break from publishing guest blog posts in order to launch a new series: Teachable Features. During our colloquium on 6th February, Dr Julia Walworth suggested that a list of manuscripts with interesting or unusual features would be a helpful pedagogical resource. As an accompaniment to any such …
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Ancillary historical skills as an essential competency for historical scholarship and associated disciplines On 1 November 2015, Eva Schlotheuber, Institute of History, University of Düsseldorf, and Frank Bösch, Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam, issued a call to action to all German historians via the Historikerverband, highlighting the need to ring-fence “Grundwissenschaften”, fundamental historical skills. This …
Teaching the Codex 