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Friday, December 25, 2015

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A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe

Absence under overload - I was answering e-mail from a subscriber a few days ago which involved me writing the below: I’m sorry that I have to answer this during a phase of hiatus....
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Anglo-Saxon Archaeology Blog

Anglo-Saxons plagiarized a Roman coin — and it's full of typos - An unusual piece of Anglo-Saxon jewelry — a plagiarized pendant rife with typos — that was discovered by a metal detectorist has now been declared tr...
2 weeks ago
Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic

The Myth of Pelagianism - *The Myth of Pelagianism* is a new book by Ali Bonner, a member of the department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Pelagius is the first known British ...
6 years ago
Antiquarian's Attic » Medieval Binham graffiti

A14 update and the Huntingdon bypass – discoveries - Anglo-Saxon settlement and Roman army camp found in A14 bypass dig It’s taken more than 700 years, but the medieval villagers of Houghton in Cambridgeshi...
6 years ago
Archaeology in Europe News Blog

What Do Vikings Mean to You? New Global Survey Seeks Answers - The University of Oslo’s Museum of Cultural History has launched a global study to uncover how people around the world perceive Viking warriors and the e...
1 week ago
BabelStone

Khitan Fragments from the Tomb of Yelü Pugu - Jinbaotun Cemetery In 2016 two large tombs (designated M1 and M2) were excavated at the Jinbaotun cemetery 金宝屯墓地 in Kailu County in eastern Inner Mongolia....
6 years ago
Bavardess

On translation, texts, and a conference - It's been an usually lovely summer here in my part of the world and I've been spending as little time as possible at the computer (and thus, am well beh...
11 years ago
BibliOdyssey

Humble Heather - *Early 19th century hand-coloured * *engravings of heath flowers* The vast majority of the 860+ species in the genus Erica (heaths/heather) are endemic t...
9 years ago
BOOKTRYST

Christopher Isherwood and Me at the Gym - * by Stephen J. Gertz* (Written five years ago, the following has the honor of being rejected by every literary journal in California secondary to length (...
5 years ago
Dianne's Medieval Writing

Cutting Up Manuscripts - Recently I posted on Twitter a photograph of an isolated medieval manuscript leaf that I own, from a 15th century book of hours. This is all part of the ...
7 years ago
Freelibraryrbd's Blog

Psalm 1 - Initial B with David as a musician Ferrara, Italy, ca. 1453-1482 Script: Rotunda Parchment with ink, paint, and gold Notation: Square Illuminator (Artist...
15 years ago
Glyph of the Day

Latin Carolingian Reforms — ~782 AD, Germany - Emperor Charlemagne apparently tried to learn how to read and write, but with poor success. Probably part of his difficulty was that he had to spend a bun...
12 years ago
Heavenfield

Merlin, Myrddin Wyllt, & the ‘Men of the North’ - Tim Clarkson, Scotland’s Merlin: A Medieval Legend and Its Dark Age Origins, John Donald, 2016. Amazon US $22 PB, $8 Kindle. Tim Clarkson’s new book, Scotl...
8 years ago
Iconic Books

Bibles as Foundation Deposits, Again - In 2007, I posted current news stories about placing bibles in the foundations of homes which I compared to ancient Middle Eastern foundation deposits...
2 months ago
Illuminated Manuscripts

Dagulf Psalter - • Sent as a gift to Pope Hadrian; the development of this relationship culminated in Charlemagne’s crowning as emperor. Hadrian in return supplied models f...
16 years ago
Incunabula Project blog

Aldus Manutius (1452? – 6 February 1515) : A humanist printer for humanist readers. Aldine editions at Cambridge University Library - Tuesday 6 February 1515 was a sad day for the Venetian literati. Aldus Manutius, the ‘Prince’ of Renaissance printers, had died. His death was not unexpect...
9 years ago
Magistra et Mater

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Manuscript Road Trip

Manuscript Road Trip: Linked Data, Library Science, and Medieval Manuscripts - Greetings, readers! In today’s post, we’re doing some library science and getting our hands dirty by digging into online cataloguing and data models. Don’t...
5 years ago
Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts

Choose wisely - An old waterlogged vellum book, with sand and seashells still stuck to its cover, which bears the words ‘My Secrete Log Boke’. Inside, an English account b...
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Medieval Manuscripts Online

Medieval MSS Online: Update - Hello again! I've just completed a transatlantic move from southern Italy to the D.C. area and now have access to the internet with a computer battery that...
15 years ago
Medieval News

10 New Youtube Videos for Medieval Lovers - Volume 2 - We found 10 more new videos on Youtube about the Middle Ages. *Rediscovered: Medieval Books at Birkbeck * This video introduces University of London - Birk...
7 years ago
Medievalists.net

An Anglo-Norman Drinking Song for Christmas - This lively piece blends the merriment of Christmas with the revelry of drinking, transporting us to the jubilant atmosphere of medieval feasts.
1 day ago
Memory Palimpsest

Christmas scene in a 15th century manuscript (detail) - Christmas scene in a 15th century manuscript (detail), originally uploaded by e-codices. Manuscript title: Cistercian Gradual , Prague (Czech Republic) 15...
10 years ago
Modern Medieval

Heroic Age Papers! - Merovingians and Their Neighbors Sponsor: *The Heroic Age* Session Organizer: Deanna Forsman Contact: Deanna Forsman North Hennepin Community College 7411 ...
8 years ago
Monstrous Beauty

The Small Hartmut Bible (Kleine Hartmut-Bibel, St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 7) - This is something new. I've had this back burner project for a year of so I call 10,000 manuscripts. Basically it was an attempt to gather together a recor...
8 years ago
P E C I A : Le manuscrit médiéval ~ The medieval manuscript

Nouvelle adresse du blog - CE BLOG EST A PRESENT EN LIGNE A CETTE NOUVELLE ADRESSE : http://pecia.blog.tudchentil.org/
4 years ago
Parchment and Pixel

Helmarshausen Psalter, Christ on the Cross, with Mary and St. John, Walters Manuscript W.10, fol. 41v - Helmarshausen Psalter, Christ on the Cross, with Mary and St. John, Walters Manuscript W.10, fol. 41v, originally uploaded by Walters Art Museum Illuminat...
11 years ago
Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages

Exhibition Now Closed - The special exhibition Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages closed on Sunday, August 23. Although my colleagues and I will no longer be writing ne...
15 years ago
Recto|Verso

The Erotic Imagination of Hans Bellmer - Hans Bellmer was a Surrealist German artist and photographer. Born in 1902 and initially working in the fields of advertising and graphic design before tra...
6 years ago
Sarah Werner

blogging days of yore - Remember how once upon a time I used to find weird old printing things and get excited about them and then blog about them? That was fun. I’m going to try ...
5 years ago
Scéla

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The Art of Illumination

Exhibition Now Closed - Above: Details of illuminations from Folio 6r, Folio 8r, and Folio 10r from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, 1405–1408/9. Herman, Paul, a...
14 years ago
The Devil's Tale

Profiles in Research: Tessel Veneboer on Women Against Sex - [image: descriptive image]Post contributed by Tessel Veneboer, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University. Veneboer received a Mar...
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The Fairly Constant Reader

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The Getty Iris

What Does Democracy Look Like? - Often the politics we see on television seem like pure theater: dramatic lighting, carefully phrased soundbites, and well-coiffed and highly made-up politi...
4 years ago
The Heroic Age

International Congress on Medieval Studies 2025 - International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 8–10, 2025 JEMNE: Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe has proposed two sessions for the next ...
5 months ago
The History Blog

Someone missed this ring when they lost it on a Roman road - An excavation in Pacé, northwestern France, has uncovered remains from the Late Bronze Age to the Middle Ages, including a Roman road and an exceptional go...
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The past and future book

Melons - [image: cropped-melons.jpg]
7 years ago
The University of Chicago Library News

Fall Quarter Library workshops - [image: Librarian Ceclia Smith] The Library is offering workshops throughout Autumn Quarter highlighting research tools, methodologies, and resources. Cont...
5 years ago
Unlocked Wordhoard

The Ending of Shakespeare's King Lear - In the latest Professor Awesome, PhD video, I explain about how the history of the legendary medieval King Leir affected the way Shakespeare's audiences ex...
11 years ago
Women of History

Tom Felton film unearths ‘epic story’ of female archaeologist - From *The Guardian*: He is one of the most recognisable actors in the world, known for his role as *Draco Malfoy* in the *Harry Potter* franchise. But now ...
1 year ago
Wynken de Worde

reading for endings - I’m not sure how to talk about my reading this year. My downwards trend continued—58 books in 2019, down from 72 in 2018 and 102 in 2017. I don’t love read...
4 years ago

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Aberdeen Bestiary
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Ancient and Medieval Electronic Texts
Archaeology in Europe
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Bayeux tapestry
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Bible Gateway
Biblical Art on the WWW
Biblioteca Ambrosiana
British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
British Library Digitized Manuscripts
Byzantine Paleography
CESG/Codices Electronici Sangallenses/Digital Abbey Library of St.Gallen
CHD Denmark
Canterbury Tales Project
Carnivalesque
Cartographic Images
Cartography Project
Cary Collection
Catalogue of Digitized Manuscripts
Celt
Codex Manesse
Columbia University Visual Media Center
Corsair/ The Morgan Library
Decameron Web
Digital Facsimiles in the Netherlands and Abroad
Digital Librarian
Digital Mirror/Medieval Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales
Digital Scriptorium
Digitisted Medieval Manuscripts Maps
Dr. Dianne Tillotson
Dr.Dianne Tillotson/Medieval Writing
Duke Papyrus Archive
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
Epistolae:Medieval Women's Letters
Eureka!
Evolution of the Medieval Book
Fitzwilliam Museum
Flemish Primitives
Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Google Art Project
Griffon's
Guild of Bookworkers
Harry Ransom Center University of Texas, Austin
Hathi Trust Digital Library
Heavenly Craft
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
Houghton Library
Hypertext Book of Hours
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
ILAB
Iluminated Manuscripts/ Project Gutenburg
Incunabula
Index of Christian Art/ Princeton University
International Dunhuang Project/British Library
Internet Archive
Internet Medieval Sourcebook/ORB/Fordham University
Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts
Jeremy Norman's History of Science
Labyrinth
Leaves of Gold
Les Enluminures
Les Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry
Lexilogos
Library of Congress
MOBiA
Mandragore
Medieval Art History
Medieval Lands
Medieval Manuscript Manual
Michael
Monastic Matrix
Munich Digitization Center
NYPL Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Netserf
Nuremberg Chronicle
Octavo
Packard Humanities Institute Index of Classical Latin Texts
Pecia
Perseus Digital Library
Pitts Theology Library Digital Archive
Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project
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Schoenberg Database
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Schoyen Collection
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Sharp Web
Smarthistory
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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The Gutenberg Museum
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
The Infancy of Printing
The Medieval Bestiary
The Orb
The Unbound Bible
University of Arizona Facsimiles of Illuminated Manuscripts Special Collections
Utrecht Psalter
VADS online resource for visual arts
Vatican Library
Vetus Latina Latin Gospel Manuscripts
Virgil.org
Walters Art Museum
Warburg Institute Iconographic Database
Webster's Online Dictionary/ multilingual thesaursus
William Blake Archive
World Digital Library
Woruldhord
Yale Digital Commons
manuscriptorium
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