Pedagogical Approaches to Palaeography and Codicology
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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Professor Henrike Lähnemann is based at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg during the summer, and she has been using a very practical method to teach her students about manuscript production. Click on the screenshot below to watch the video on the Freiburg website, and see Professor Lähnemann and her students produce their own documents.
Anna Boeles Rowland is a DPhil student in Medieval History at Merton College, Oxford. Dr Pauline Souleau is a Lecturer in French at Somerville College, Balliol College, and Magdalen College, Oxford. In this post, they follow on from their paper at Teaching the Codex II (May 2017) and introduce the Manuscripts Outreach Network. The Project/The …
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Dr Samantha Blickhan is the IMLS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, where she works on crowdsourced text and audio transcription projects for Zooniverse.org. Her PhD (Royal Holloway, University of London, 2016) thesis focused on the paleography and notation of insular song from 1150-1300. Here, she writes about designing an undergraduate music paleography …
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Dr Matthew Holford, Curator of the Medieval Manuscripts Cataloguing Project at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, explains the intricacies of catalogue descriptions of manuscripts. This post features both in our blog and our Teachable Features series. It is easy to forget that manuscript descriptions can be hard to understand. Once you are familiar with the …
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Sian Witherden is at Balliol College, Oxford, working on a DPhil thesis about touch in late Medieval English drama. Here, she writes about teaching medieval page design. In November 2016, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to take six very enthusiastic undergraduate students into the Bodleian Library’s Special Collections for a manuscript class …
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. …
Teaching the Codex 