This talk will follow one line of research attempting to date a bilingual manuscript from the second half of the twelfth century. From exploring the aspect, duct, and shapes of individual letters, the study moves outward to consider the grade and formality of later twelfth and earlier thirteenth-century manuscripts and charters, before focusing on twelfth-centuryContinue reading “Online Lecture: 2021 Anselm Lecture – Practices of Writing in England, 1050–1250, Professor Elaine Treharne, Thursday 8th April, 6pm (BST)”
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Summer Seminars in Paleography and Archival Studies
June 4 – July 7, 2018 Deadline: May 27, 2018 Summer Seminars in Paleography and Archival Studies Session I: 4 – 9 June 2018 / Deadline: 27 May 2018 Session II: 25 – 30 June 2018 / Deadline: 18 June 2018 Session III: 2 – 7 July 2018 / Deadline: 25 June 2018 The Medici Archive Project is pleased to announce the dates for the upcoming 2018Continue reading “Summer Seminars in Paleography and Archival Studies”
2017 John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture
Date 24 May 2017, 18:00 to 24 May 2017, 20:00 Type Lecture Venue The Chancellor’s Hall, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Description Professor Judith Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, FBA, École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Crossing palaeographical borders: bi-alphabetical Hebrew scribes and manuscripts in Egypt, Spain and Northern France (11th to 15th centuries) MedievalContinue reading “2017 John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture”
CFP: Layers of Parchment, Layers of Time: Reconstructing Manuscripts: 800 – 1600 (Abstracts due 1 February 2017)
23 June 2017, University of Cambridge Layers of Parchment, Layers of Time: Reconstructing Manuscripts: 800 – 1600 is an interdisciplinary conference that will explore various issues surrounding the complex subject of manuscripts whose parts have become dislodged and subsequently had diverging histories. Our goal is to foster dialogues—between different disciplines—on how to approach dismembered manuscriptsContinue reading “CFP: Layers of Parchment, Layers of Time: Reconstructing Manuscripts: 800 – 1600 (Abstracts due 1 February 2017)”
Leeds 2015 Art History session: Grisaille, Shades of Meaning in Late Medieval Manuscripts
Session: 1702 Grisaille: Shades of Meaning in Late Medieval Manuscripts Thursday 9 July 2015: 14.15-15.45 Organiser Sophia Rochmes (Department of History of Art & Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara) and Anna Russakoff (American University of Paris) Moderator/Chair Anna Russakoff, American University of Paris Grisaille, or imagery in monochrome tones of grey, proliferated in late-medievalContinue reading “Leeds 2015 Art History session: Grisaille, Shades of Meaning in Late Medieval Manuscripts”
Making Sense of Manuscripts – Saturday 14 June 2014, UCL History Department
A workshop introducing students to the study of medieval documents. Saturday 14 June 2014, UCL History Department Diplomatic is the formal term for the study and analysis of documents in medieval manuscripts. Diplomatic encompasses a broad range of documents from the Middle Ages (royal charters, papal bulls, diplomas, legal writs, contracts, judicial records, treaties, etc.)Continue reading “Making Sense of Manuscripts – Saturday 14 June 2014, UCL History Department”
Medieval Art Research 