Saturday, May 01, 2010

Medieval Science

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In writing a new introductory section on Works on Medieval Science for Medieval Writing, it occurred to me how entangled we get in matters ...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Kids, Computers and Literacy Education

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Our crackpot government here in Oz has decided to steer us through the rough economic times by putting new buildings in schools, whether the...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Not that Voynich Manuscript Again

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In the course of running Medieval Writing I get a number of interesting emails. I also get some uninteresting ones. (No, please, I don'...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Writing and Remembering

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While we read vast amounts of verbiage, some of it of ephemeral or trivial content, we remember very little of it in detail. Medieval reader...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Books Real and Virtual

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A recent story from BBC News has indicated that the Italian government is working with Google to digitise huge numbers of ancient books, po...
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Unwelcome Visitor

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Would the sub-humanoid who keeps attempting to post a link to pictures of his naked ex, along with unpleasant remarks, as a comment on this ...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

National Curriculum and Literacy

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Here in Australia we are embroiled in politics over the implementation of a national curriculum for schools. Great idea in theory, generat...
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Monday, March 01, 2010

Electronic Scribes

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My medievalist sidekick recently received a gift of a book from a person to whom he had given some assistance in the past regarding some his...
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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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