The UCL Summer School in Homer is offering a rare opportunity to spend an intensive week studying the history of Latin scripts from the age of Augustus to the invention of printing, and acquiring palaeographical skills by transcribing texts written in a variety of these scripts. Where possible, the texts will have a Homeric theme, …
The Science of Medieval Pigments: Teaching the Materials Analysis of Manuscripts in the Undergraduate Classroom
Cynthia Turner Camp is Associate Professor of English and Graduate Coordinator at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, where she teaches Middle English and manuscript studies. She and her students blog about their adventures with manuscripts on the Hargrett Hours Project website, and you can also follow along on Twitter at @hargretthours. It can …
An Online Module for Teaching Manuscript Transcription with Blackboard Learn
Krista A. Murchison is a lecturer in medieval literature at Leiden University, in The Netherlands. Her research centers around the popular vernacular literature of England and the productive ways in which contemporary digital culture and medieval textual culture illuminate each other. Her experience with digital pedagogy includes leading her students’ production of a web edition …
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Can I have your autograph? Martin Luther’s Sprichwortersammlung (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Add. A. 92)
Alexander Peplow is a first-year DPhil student in History at Merton College, Oxford, and a member of the Teaching the Codex committee. Here, he writes about one of the Bodleian's Martin Luther autographs, which he encountered as a Master's student in Medieval Studies, and reflects on some of the techniques he used to analyse it. …
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