🎺 IT'S THE FINAL WEEK! 🎺
If you want to be a part of the 20th annual MEMSA conference, Connection, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World, this is your last chance! Submit your application of 300 words no later than Monday the 9th! We hope to hear from you soon!
One more day of Rivers of Ink at Jarrow tomorrow, then off to Durham Cathedral to finish of the tour. It’s been great to collaborate with The Projection Studio, with their fantastic installation celebrating the world’s oldest complete Bible. @durhamtheology.bsky.social
Oh cool, it’ll be nice to meet you both then
Yes I’ll do that, that would be great!
Thank you! It’s stunningly huge isn’t it! I’m making a foam facsimile for the school groups to get an idea of the size as it’s just not clear otherwise. Looking forward to the Hereford Gospels events btw, I’m hoping to make it over for some of them
It’s been a busy time leading up to this! Our tour of the north east celebrating Amiatinus finally starts this Wednesday with an incredible sound and light show produced by The Projection Studio
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Image of Cuthbert being consecrated as bishop
Cuthbert at dinner as he has a vision of someone falling out of a tree
C12th wall paintings of St Cuthbert at St Laurence’s Church, Pittington. Taken by Ross Ashton in preparation for our upcoming Rivers of Ink tour of the North East www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
That looks excellent, I look forward to reading it! Thanks for sharing the post about the tour, too.
Our ‘Rivers of Ink: Amiatinus and the Northumbrian Heritage’ tour of the NE England starts in February, with public talks, family drop ins and school events. The tour finishes at Durham Cathedral with talks by Francis Watson and Richard Gameson:
🎺 Are you interested in exploring Connections, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World? Then consider submitting a paper to the 20th annual conference, taking place 13 and 14 July 2026 at St John’s College, Durham University!
You’re absolutely going to get this done, the desk set-up demands it ❤️
It’s Carolingian Minuscule, a really fun one to do.
I’ll be at the Chester Beatty museum next week for Science Week Ireland offering drop-in workshops making iron gall ink and talking about Medieval pigments. It’s a fun way of opening up the world of the scribes who produced Early Medieval manuscripts.
🚨CfP🚨 ‘Shaping the Word: the Form and Use of Biblical Manuscripts in the Early Medieval West’
We are looking for papers exploring ways in which scriptures (including extra canonical) were used and presented during the Early Medieval period. A range of methodologies and disciplines welcome!
This guy loves Melrose too
A visit to the stunning Melrose Abbey to plan the first stop on our Codex Amiatinus sound and light show tour in February 2026
It’s a Coptic GIF!! Thanks @laurenrndll.bsky.social for the sneak peak from Manuscripts and the Mind at @chesterbeatty.bsky.social
#manuscripts #coptic
We have a very exciting line up of people giving our main papers, including Richard Gameson offering a show and tell with mss in the Durham collections.
Send us your queries and abstracts by the 17th November.
CfP 🚨 ‘Shaping the Word: the Form and use of Biblical Manuscripts in the Early Medieval West’
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Durham Uni, 2–5 July 2026 From c. 500-1000, Christian scriptures were produced and used in a diverse range of forms and contexts. A manuscript may include a single biblical text (the psalter, a gospel), a collection of texts (the Hexateuch, the gospels), or, rarely, a complete “New Testament” or “Bible” in the modern sense. The distinctiveness of a manuscript is shown by content and textual affiliation, its palaeographical and codicological characteristics, and its paratextual features – from illustrations of biblical narratives, author portraits, and illuminated lettering to canon tables, capitula, prefatory materials, and glosses. Once in circulation, a manuscript’s contexts of use may also vary. Different uses correspond to different users with distinct and perhaps conflicting priorities/goals. Production and use(s) may occur at the same site or at far distant times and places. This conference aims to explore topics related to both the physical presentation and the use of scriptural manuscripts produced in the Early Medieval period (c. 500–1000 CE). We welcome paper proposals from scholars working in all areas of this field, including PhD students. Whatever the specific topic, priority may be given to papers that also relate it to the wider focus of the conference on both “form” (or “production”) and “use”. We hope to be able to cover presenters’ full conference costs with the exception of travel. Titles and Abstracts of proposed papers should be submitted to Lauren Randall (lauren.m.randall@durham.ac.uk), copied to Francis Watson (francis.watson@durham.ac.uk), by Monday 17 November. Abstracts should not exceed 150 words. Papers should be 25 minutes, allowing 20 minute discussion. There will be keynote papers/presentations. Please contact us if you have any questions! This event forms part of our sub-project “Text, Format, and Reader”, focused on Codex Amiatinus and funded by the Glasgow-based “Paratexts Seeking Understanding” project (Templeton Religion Trust)
CFP: “Shaping the Word: the Form and Use of Biblical Manuscripts in the Early Medieval West” at Durham University in July 2026. We are interested in a wide range of papers exploring ways in which scriptural texts (produced roughly c. 500-1000) were presented and used.
And we’re back! Our highly-rated Latin Palaeography and Early Modern English Palaeography courses are back with a twist: this time they’ll run across 6 week instead of 2, giving you more time to really dig into the content and your practice at your own pace. Apply now!
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Showing doorway of medieval abbey building from the inside
Dore Abbey’s abbey door(way). Great skeleton painted on the left, too!
#Latin #Medieval
The book cover, featuring Artemisia’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy
I’m at the airport en route to #EABSBL, so it feels like the perfect time to send a copy of my book, Reimaging the Magdalene, on a journey too!
💛 like and 🔁 RT and I’ll draw a winner on the feast of Mary Mag (22/07, heathens)
Let’s see where it ends up…
#Giveaway
Definitely related!
Or maybe an otter
Image of manuscript page, showing a little doodle sign-off with a picture of a cat-like creature
This cute little cat-like creature in Egerton 609
I would never
