Do you know somebody who needs to learn Latin from scratch or improve their Latin to PhD standard? CMS Toronto's summer Latin program is now entirely online and a remarkable bargain for the intensity and quality of instruction. Details here: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer...
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During my final year as a PhD student, I was very broke and in Cambridge for a week. One of the staff members didn't charge me for a cup of tea and a Snickers bar and that kindness has always stuck with me.
Although I am a Dark Blue, I have to give a shout out to the UL's tea room.
AI is suffocating our systems part whatever
Ahhhh why are so many cool things happening on 25 March?!
The reason the indispensable (to me, anyway) Bodleian medieval manuscripts site has been down. This feels to me like the web equivalent of the destructive scanning of physical books, and I hate it.
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies building in Dublin, Ireland
Scoláireacht bliana le fáil i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh
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Sonraí / Details:
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It's beautiful. Thank you!
The opening of the Gospel of St Matthew from the Bodmin Gospels.
A decorated canon table from the Bodmin Gospels.
The opening of the Gospel of St Mark from the Bodmin Gospels.
A page from the Bodmin Gospels, showing a set of added manumissions, or documents concerning the release of slaves.
A few folios from the Bodmin Gospels (Add MS 9381), a 9th-century Breton Gospel-book that was brought to Bodmin in Cornwall by the end of the 10th century. It's notable for its added manumissions, documents recording the free of slaves.
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MS Add 9381 😍😍😍😍😍
We have missed you!!!
The latest "Early Medieval Europe" podcast is out now! Catch @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social talking to Holly Miller and Christina Lee about their new article on animals and early medieval medicine: rss.com/podcasts/ear...
An illustration from a 13th-century bestiary, showing a phoenix rising from the flames.
Hello, have you missed us? We’d love to hear from you.
Tell us your favourite British Library manuscript and we’ll post an image for you.
The opening of Beowulf from the unique surviving manuscript of the Old English text, beginning with a large initial 'H'.
Hwaet! The Beowulf manuscript (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV) is now back online.
You can consult the entire manuscript through the online catalogue:
searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...
In June the wonderful Michelle Brown is teaching her summer school course on Medieval Women @ #LRBS @ies-sas.bsky.social. Book now 👇
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I once introduced myself as Carolyn Minuscule while on a research trip in Germany.
Good news in the British Museum polling re. the Bayeux Tapestry visit: 71% of parents want their children to learn more about the story of 1066 and 76% of responses agreed '1066 is an important part of British history and people should learn more about it'.
Fund the Arts and Humanities!
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Just try it: 'Primitus pantorum procerum praetorumque pio potissimum paternoque praesertim privilegio panagerieum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgantes'
(British Library, Cotton ms Domitian A IX)
Reading Aldhelm's letters aloud in a Moira Rose accent is very enjoyable.
Calling #Skystorians #MedievalSky the 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School (formerly the Keele summer school) is open for bookings. 27-31 July in Birmingham. 👇
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When you stare into a manuscript and the manuscript stares into you
😂😂😂😂😂
Opening pages of Pauline Stafford's British Academy memoir of Dame Jinty Nelson with abstract text: Summary. Jinty Nelson was a leading scholar of early medieval European history, with a special focus on Francia in the late 8th and 9th centuries. She was at the forefront of a generation that re-vivified the study of the early middle ages, in her case especially concerned with the working of the Carolingian political system and the re-evaluation of the role of the aristocracy alongside king and church in early medieval politics. She was a pioneer of the study of women’s and gender history, demonstrating not only its intrinsic interest and importance, but also that political history could not be understood without attention to both. She had a deep and humane interest in the people of the past. Her academic career was spent entirely at King’s College, London, where she was an outstanding and much-loved teacher. Her professional contribution and recognition went far beyond that, and were marked by her election in 2000 as the first woman President of the Royal Historical Society. She became a champion of the subject and its teaching, wherever that was practised. In 2006 she was made a Dame of the British Empire for services to History.
Now available, the British Academy memoir of Dame Jinty Nelson (1942-2024), historian and first female President of the Royal Historical Society: bit.ly/4qUa0ua
The memoir is written by Professor Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social and available via @britishacademy.bsky.social #Skystorians
Congratulations! Please give Ozzy an extra pet from me.
Professor John Nightingale, iconic medievalist and Fellow of Magdalen, who taught me Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, retires this summer.
So Oxford and Magdalen are recruiting. There is no better place to teach and research medieval history than this: in the footsteps of Karl Leyser.
This has been a slog but I’m pleased to day that I’m currently checking the proofs, which means this book will soon be out in the wild!
Sure - it's 'et prosperis'
My favourite ligatures of the day (Vienna, ÖNB, for. 17r)
Do you or your students need to hone your skills for working with medieval manuscripts? We have in-person short courses for you in June. Book now to avoid disappointment! 👇 #MedievalSky #ManuscriptSky
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