Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Disappearing Paleography

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In case anybody is wondering what the enigmatic comments on the last posting are about, they refer to the intention to close the School of P...
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Sunday, February 07, 2010

Why Paleography Sucks

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The most recent addition to the Medieval Writing website is an essay called Why Paleography Sucks . I have been wanting to write this for s...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Copyright and Old Stuff

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Do you ever get the feeling that the whole issue of copyright is completely out of control? The ease with which things can be reproduced, an...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Site Update

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Latest updates to the site Medieval Writing have largely been of the housekeeping variety, excising dead links, updating moved links, all t...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Comments Welcome

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Readers of this blog may have noted that comments are moderated. That is to say, I read them before they can be displayed. Please do not thi...
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Sunday, November 01, 2009

Medieval Manuscript Fragments

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I was contacted recently by a scholar who had an interest in a paleography sample shown on the website Medieval Writing . While I had just p...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Medieval Mystery Tour

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Some time ago I received an email containing pictures of a medieval document. This happens quite frequently actually, and I will say right n...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Problems Scribes Didn't Have - Or Did They

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I was recently looking at a comment about my website Medieval Writing on a bulletin board. I don't do this for vanity, but for quality ...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Medieval Musical Literacy

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Many years ago I listened to a lecture from an eminent scholar in which he equated the advancement of the world's knowledge during the c...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Kids, Fonts, Multimedia and Reading

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Those who have been following my ramblings, both on the Medieval Writing website and here, know that I have a thing about trying to underst...
Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Ancestors, Archives and Medieval Writing

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I have become aware lately of the amazing growth in the services to the public provided by the National Archives in London through their var...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Text, Image, Manuscript and Multimedia

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Many years ago when the world was young, around 1995, I started attempting to produce multimedia presentations on various topics in medieval...
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Monday, January 14, 2008

Medieval Ephemera on the Web

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Just before going completely off the air for a Christmans holiday break, I had an interesting conversation with a fellow independent medieva...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Manuscript and Information Control

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I have just been reading a most fascinating book by the historian Eamon Duffy entitled Marking the Hours: English People and their Prayers 1...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Google and Link Lists

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One of the oddities I find whenever I check the web stats for Medieval Writing is that the site receives a regular trickle of hits from lin...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Brave New Web

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A few years ago a I wrote an article entitled Multimedia Medievalia: The Fate of Traditional Scholarship in a Post-Modern World , for a coll...
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Friday, June 08, 2007

Book Announcement

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The Australian National University's e-Press has just put online what should be a fabulous new book for those interested in the history ...
Thursday, May 24, 2007

Broken Links

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Over the years Medieval Writing has acquired a formidable array of external links, which periodically have to be systematically checked. I ...
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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Whatever Happened to Shorthand?

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You know how you are sitting around after dinner talking about one thing and the conversation wobbles off into something else. It started wi...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Maintain the Revolution

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In a recent newspaper editorial from this end of the world, in the Canberra Times, it was reported that certain schools in America, which ha...