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In Marca Hispanica IX: actual charter scholarship
This is the last one of the Catalonia trip edits, so from here on it’ll be back to the more mundane writing and stolen graphics… So I thought I’d give you some hardcore diplomatic work as well as a...
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Mad science and palæography that might work, this time
A while ago I mentioned, mainly because of amusement, a project here in Cambridge that was trying to liken manuscript transmission, and specifically the deterioration of texts through scribal errors,...
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A certain sensitivity to the medieval, expressed by means of a bagful of links
One way I sometimes wind up writing a post is that I have two or three links that I see a common theme in. Because I tend to put things together over a while, these inevitably collect more links like...
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Seminary LII, Interdisciplinary conversation V: a new post at Cliopatria
A small portion of a Slovenian manuscript written in Glagolitic script The Bidayuh Longhouse in the Sarawak Cultural Village, Kuching As I guess you know, I try and hear about research in other...
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Can I see it in the daylight? New visualisation technology
[I'm sorry for the blank few days: there was some marking, I was ill, then there was a man wanting something written fast, then another, then a lecture to plan and write and oh yeah, paid work too....
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The KCL situation
Several people have asked me to write something about the situation at King’s College London. And indeed, it may seem strange that I haven’t so far joined in what has become one of the most widespread...
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Seminars XCVI, XCVII & XCVIII: lectures and learning in Oxford
Returning the story of my academic life to these shores, there is a triennial lecture series here in Oxford established in the name of Elias Avery Lowe, the man behind Codices Latini Antiquiores, which...
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Conferring in Naples, III: a full day’s talking
So, term started, and there was a short hiatus, for most of which this post was in draft. But, it’s actually a little hard to work out how to address the papers given at the Digital Diplomatics 2011...
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The rudest tree you ever did see written about
To continue, a lighter note in the knells of Zimmermann critique for once! Just at the close of chapter 6 of his immense Écrire et lire en Catalogne, Michel Zimmermann references as an amusing...
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Images from Montserrat!
Readers who’ve been here a little while may remember that since about 2012 I have been mounting a sporadic attempt to quantify and locate the various members of the clergy attested in the tenth- and...
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What do I think of the Bíblia de Danila?
There has been a very long hiatus here, for which I’m sorry. The factors in this have basically been: first-marking a bunch of exams; reading enough to kickstart a course I have inherited that starts...
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In Marca Hispanica XXXIII: my questions answered
The entrance to the Arxiu Capitular i Biblioteca de Vic Resuming the recounting of my last trip to Catalonia, we left the story at the amazing Santa Maria del Mar in Barcelona but finished that day...
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Scribal individuation around Manresa c. 1002
Some time around the end of December 2015, in the fond expectation of soon having time to advance my old project on scribes and Church structures around the Catalan city of Manresa in the tenth...
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