Sunday, June 22, 2014

Beasties from the Bestiary

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  Purely coincidentally, the last two script samples and paleography exercises for which I have updated the graphics in Medieval Writing (c...
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Friday, June 13, 2014

Protogothic and Choking Lions

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  For reasons which are not entirely clear, some members of the medieval Tweeting community use the hashtag #notalion to post pictures of me...
Monday, June 09, 2014

Medieval Cartoon Strip and Reader's Digest

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  I think my very favourite English church is All Saints, North Street in York. Unusual design, sits down there by the river, sports an ange...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

Sweet Caroline

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  I have updated the graphics in Medieval Writing from the British Library website of images available for use under Creative Commons licen...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Live Tweeting

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  With the conference season apparently in full swing, 'tis the season to be tweeting. Conference organisers these days give instruction...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Bored with Gothic? Try This.

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  This week's update to the graphics in Medieval Writing is for a script sample and paleography exercise of Beneventan script, as exp...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Irish Gospels

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  The task of updating graphic in Medieval Writing grinds relentlessly on as a result of the generosity of the British Library in making t...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Colophons and Marginalia and All That

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  I love beautiful medieval illuminations as much as the next time travelling aesthete, but I have always had a fascination for the words. P...
Thursday, March 06, 2014

Updated Graphics - Again

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  Some years ago, when the British Library put up their Turning the Pages digital display for a few of their very finest treasures, I discov...
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Sunday, March 02, 2014

Manuscripts and Stained Glass

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  It may be giving me a split personality, but I have been dividing my medieval time (I do have other time!) between updating things, mainly...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Updating Links Again

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  I have just had another all too infrequent run through updating links, this time on the Complete Digital Facsimiles page of Medieval Wri...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

More Updated Graphics - Rustic Capitals

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  Creeping along updating some of the Medieval Writing graphics with fancy colour images downloaded from the British Library, we now have a...
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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Online Paleography

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  I have just done one of my all too infrequent updates on the Paleography Links page of Medieval Writing . Unfortunately there seem to be ...
Saturday, February 08, 2014

A Leetle Progress

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  The images on another British Librar y manuscript in Medieval Writing have been updated, courtesy of their wonderful website. These inclu...
Friday, February 07, 2014

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

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  We are sweltering in a long, long hot spell down here in Oz right now; too hot to be doing thinky things like paleography. So I have embar...
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Monday, February 03, 2014

Painful Progress

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  As promised, I am working, excruciatingly slowly, on replacing older graphics in Medieval Writing with better ones, with especial thanks ...
Saturday, February 01, 2014

Little Scribal Thingamajig

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    We all love our little medieval depictions of scribes. Somehow it connects us to the letters they wrote on those dead sheep and cows. I ...
Monday, January 27, 2014

New Technology - Luv It, But ...

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  Starting many many years ago, I made periodic excursions around England and parts of Europe photographing medieval stuff. This was origina...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

New Year's Resolution, Right

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  Since trying to get my real life / cyberlife balance a bit more in synch, I can hopefully get back to a bit more medieval paleography and ...
Friday, January 10, 2014

We Get More Medieval Every Day

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  Long, long time ago I put a post on this blog about how a web page is more like a medieval manuscript than like the page of a printed boo...