Dianne's Medieval Writing

A companion to the website Medieval Writing, concerning itself with medieval handwriting and its cultural setting, now expanded to encompass aspects of medieval heritage and material culture. Tweeting as Hipster Bookfairy . Gradually putting medieval photos on Flickr

Sunday, March 26, 2017

What's With Medieval Tombs? Part 22: Bling on Tombs

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  Efffigy tombs of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries always show people dolled up in their finest, adorned with various kinds of bling. Sure...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Cutting Up Manuscripts

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  Recently I posted on Twitter a photograph of an isolated medieval manuscript leaf  that I own,  from a 15th century book of hours. This is...
Saturday, January 07, 2017

Not Just a Big Church: The Index

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  A series of posts looking at large churches as living communities, with a changing history and perhaps deceptive surviving remains. Ca...

Not Just a Big Church: a Building Site

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  As we visit the great churches of yore, whether they are still in use or exist as mere ruins, we see a distorted image of how these buildi...
Sunday, September 11, 2016

Space and the End of the Middle Ages in Britain

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  Now I am not a person who likes to indulge in debates about periodisation in history. As far as I am concerned, the middle ages came betwe...
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