Dianne's Medieval Writing: What's With Medieval Tombs? Part 18: Animals on To...: Animals have a lively history in medieval art, depicted naturalistically, stylistically and in ways that seem quite nonsensical. As with m...
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Dianne's Medieval Writing: Medieval Manuscripts and Paleography
Dianne's Medieval Writing: Medieval Manuscripts and Paleography: Medieval manuscripts and paleography were what this blog was originally about, but this has got a bit swamped lately with some other theme...
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Monday, July 27, 2015
Dianne's Medieval Writing: Medieval Graffiti and Medieval Marginalia
Dianne's Medieval Writing: Medieval Graffiti and Medieval Marginalia: In the area of medieval studies it often seems that armies of scholars are marching in serried ranks over well trodden ground again and ag...
Monday, June 23, 2014
Dianne's Medieval Writing: Beasties from the Bestiary
Dianne's Medieval Writing: Beasties from the Bestiary: Purely coincidentally, the last two script samples and paleography exercises for which I have updated the graphics in Medieval Writing (c...
Monday, April 14, 2014
Dianne's Medieval Writing: Bored with Gothic? Try This.
Dianne's Medieval Writing: Bored with Gothic? Try This.: This week's update to the graphics in Medieval Writing is for a script sample and paleography exercise of Beneventan script, as exp...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Beyond Borders: In the Margins: Reading a Fifteenth Century Medica...
Beyond Borders: In the Margins: Reading a Fifteenth Century Medica...: London, Wellcome Library MS 5262 is a late medieval vernacular medical recipe collection. The manuscript was copied in the e...
Monday, August 26, 2013
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Dianne's Medieval Writing: Working Scripts for (Somewhat) Ordinary Books
Dianne's Medieval Writing: Working Scripts for (Somewhat) Ordinary Books: Standard paleography textbooks tend to categorise scripts neatly, then present the finest or most representative of each type, giving the ...
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Parchment and Pixel: Helmarshausen Psalter, Christ on the Cross, with M...
Parchment and Pixel: Helmarshausen Psalter, Christ on the Cross, with M...: Helmarshausen Psalter, Christ on the Cross, with Mary and St. John, Walters Manuscript W.10, fol. 41v , originally uploaded by Walters Art M...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Parchment and Pixel: Prayer book, Office of the Dead, Walters Manuscrip...
Parchment and Pixel: Prayer book, Office of the Dead, Walters Manuscrip...: Prayer book, Office of the Dead, Walters Manuscript W.182, fol. 67v , originally uploaded by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts . Th...
Dianne's Medieval Writing: When Did Latin Become Dead?
Dianne's Medieval Writing: When Did Latin Become Dead?: It is commonly asserted that Latin was a dead language in the middle ages. Well, it wasn't. They simplified and changed the grammar,...
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