The BBC reports on the work of the Mapping Paper in Medieval England project. The project team, led by Dr Da Rold, has as its aim to prepare a new dataset of Medieval Paper Manuscripts written in England between 1300 and about 1500. Funded by the Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme, and building on data […]
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The Manuscripts Lab
A new collaborative project ‘The Manuscripts Lab’ has just been launched. The Lab provides a virtual space for academics, students and anyone interested in the handwritten culture to share ideas, findings, and resources for teaching and research about manuscripts. It intends to embrace manuscript studies across a broad geographical and temporal spread. The lab welcomes contributions about projects, events and […]
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Dr Orietta Da Rold has contributed to a new book, Writing Europe, 500-1450. Medieval Europe was characterized by a sophisticated market for the production, exchange and sale of written texts. This volume brings together papers on a range of topics, centred on manuscript studies and textual criticism, which explore these issues from a pan-European perspective. […]
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The Writing Britain Conference will be live-tweeting the event using the hashtag #WritBrit2014. View a Storify timeline of the conference created by J. D. Sargan.
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