Sunday, February 13, 2011

Glossed Bible

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And a little bit of medieval detritus that I found has turned out to be a torn fragment of a page of what was once probably a very nice glos...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Monastic Pressmarks

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OK, I promised I would sneak a little something in. There is a set of new script samples of cursive writing from the 14th and 15th centurie...
Friday, February 11, 2011

The Medieval 90s

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  The stuff you find when you start looking through old files! No doubt I thought this primitive bit of computer cartooning infinitely hilar...
Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Dirty Medieval Books

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  OK, so here I am dutifully typing up catalogue entries from scruffy old notebooks and sending files into The Cloud and vowing not to do an...
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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Scribal Anxiety

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  I guess new writing technology has always caused anxiety. I mean, a block of stone marked with a chisel has so much greater archival stabi...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

It's Personal

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There is something about handwriting that links us to the writer; or at least, we are under the delusion that it does. I must admit to a nai...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Merry Christmas to the Myopic

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Some little while ago I discovered a comment on somebody else's blog complaining that the fonts on this blog were way too small. What ac...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Reading and Listening

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I recently received an email from someone who, as an aside to the main conversation, said he was an Oxford graduate in literature and Classi...
Monday, December 06, 2010

History of the Familiar

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The latest addition to the website is The Strange History of Humanistic Minuscule . It is an odd thing that the form of medieval handwriting...
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Friday, December 03, 2010

Who Ya Talkin To?

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Many years ago I used to have roistering arguments with archaeologists about the relationships between languages and their speakers. There w...
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Is Blogging Dead?

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I have just received an email informing me that this blog is listed on another blog posting entitled 50 Best Blogs for Medieval History Geek...
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Friday, November 05, 2010

John Paston's Books

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Recently, when the family medievalist finally abandoned his university office and retired to a study at home, we transported boxes and boxes...
Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Of Tennis Balls and Mulberry Trees

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When I was a kid I used to play tennis at a suburban court. Next door was a huge back garden with an enormous mulberry tree. If we should ha...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

What's It All About?

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If anybody out there is interested in the history and background to this project, there is an article in which I discuss it in the latest ed...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

1066 and All That

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One thing leads to another. Having added a section on Special English Letters, I thought I had better put in an example that uses a few of t...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Special English Characters

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In the process of filling up those little holes I keep finding, the History of Alphabet Letters section now has a subsection on Special Engl...
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Monday, August 02, 2010

Gothic Book Hands

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The most recent addition to Medieval Writing is The History of Gothic Book Hands . Not exactly the most original of topics, and probably to...
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Titivullus Goes Digital

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In the course of doing some housework on Medieval Writing , I discovered that the version on my computer was missing the History of the Lett...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

Paul Simon was Right

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"When I think about the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can even think at all" sang Paul Simon in one of his mo...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Medieval Help Desk

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I always wondered whether medieval scribes had a Help Desk. You can imagine the kind of thing. "Well first the ink doesn't run at a...