Monday, May 27, 2013

One Small Step for Paleography

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Well it's been a while since anything was done on Medieval Writing , but having corrected a couple of minor errors that were pointed out...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

History and Mythology - 1066 and all that

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  For a large number of years now, there has been a website entitled Secrets of the Norman Invasion . The site has grown and developed over ...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Manuscripts and Naked Hands

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  It's been a long time between drinks, But hopefully I can get back on the airwaves again. Well sometimes reality interferes with your...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Books about Books

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  There has been recent interest in the concept as books as objects of material culture. For years academics have concentrated on the texts,...
Sunday, May 06, 2012

The Elephant is Dead

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  One of the adjuncts to Medieval Writing was The Elephant Book, a guide to medieval resources on the web, originally designed for studen...
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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Manuscripts, Books, Pixels

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   Our giant bookfair has come and gone, quashing the idea that the printed book has had its day. $430,000 dollars made for Lifeline in one ...
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Saturday, March 03, 2012

To Hell with Technology

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  Well there I was, chugging through updating the graphics and formatting in the script samples , when I came upon a section where I had no ...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Books Online or Online Books?

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  I have mentioned in the past that I do some voluntary work in a large warehouse that processes secondhand books for several bookfairs a ye...
Sunday, February 05, 2012

More Medieval Documents

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  I have just made some additions to the section on Dealing with Medieval Documents , having discovered that I had left out some stuff I had...
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Friday, February 03, 2012

What Not To Do with Your Manuscripts

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  Latest additions to the site include a small expansion to the section on Handling Manuscripts , having come across some more little bits t...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Medieval Documents

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  I have just put up a brief section on the website on Dealing with Medieval Documents . This is in response to a steady trickle of emails t...
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Sunday, January 08, 2012

Back, or Forward, to Hieroglyphics

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  Many years ago when multimedia was a novelty and the world was young and innocent, twelve year old multimedia designers told us that the w...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

A Blogological Mystery

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  One of the strangest things about this blog is that the most read post by a country mile is a simple Christmas greeting I put up last year...
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Monday, November 07, 2011

Who Spotted My Deliberate Mistake?

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  After receiving an email from somebody who wanted some information about Charlemagne's monogram, I discovered that I had left out a pi...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Hurray for Brewster

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   I have grumped before about the ephemeral nature of the web, and now I am going to grump again. I have just upgraded the graphics and fo...
Friday, October 21, 2011

Authentic Fakery

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  Every so often I get an email from somebody who wants to buy, or has bought, a bit of medieval memorabilia on eBay and wants to know whet...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Rejected, Discarded, Forgotten

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   Have you checked out the blog Forgotten Bookmarks ? It's all about the odd things that people leave in secondhand books. If you have ...
Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Right Royal Books

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  I have just received an email suggesting that I remind you all about the exhibition of manuscripts from the Royal collection at the Britis...
Saturday, October 01, 2011

So Many Books!

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  After five days of lugging books around and a week of entertaining two rampaging granddaughters, progress has resumed on updating the form...
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Monday, September 19, 2011

Slight break in Transmission

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  Updates to Medieval Writing have hit a slight delay. Sometimes real life has a habit of interfering with the tranquility of virtual reali...