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Can you use Machine Learning to create an Open Access corpus of Old English? Find out more in the first Virtual Seminar of our new series of seminars! :)

Very excited to be giving the annual Brixworth lecture this year (on Saturday 2 November), which will be about Offa of Mercia. All welcome to attend: ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/north…

Publication – Arthur Westwell, « The Carolingian Sacramentaries of Saint-Amand. Art, Script, and Liturgical Creativity in an Early Medieval Monastery » rmblf.be/2024/08/16/pub…

...and so it begins! Today marks the first working day of my @ERC_Research CoG-project #glossit In the coming five years my team and I will investigate language contact and knowledge transfer visible in the early medieval glossing traditions on the Venerable #Bede and #Priscian

9th century primer by Irish student at Reichenau monastery written in insular script. Text on left (middle) is an Irish spell & under that story of an Irish monk & his cat, Pangur Ban. Amazing exhibition of treasures from Reichenau in Constance - full of Irish connections.🤩

Call of Papers – Mittelalterliche Handschriften der Kölner Dombibliothek📜 Am 29. & 30.11.2024 findet in der Diözesan- und Dombibliothek #Köln das 10. #Symposion zu den mittelalterlichen #Handschriften der Kölner #Dombibliothek statt. #Bibliothek dombibliothek-koeln.de/m-article/Call…

Fascinating to see these photos of almost 20 English coins from the early 10C found in recent excavations at the Palazzo della Rovere in Rome, in the middle of the early medieval Schola Saxonum. Work on-going! Photos and more details from here: youtu.be/8nQtFQbmKME?fe…

@Helen_Gittos @liddyprosser There are some from Canterbury too (for 7th c kings, Hlothhere and Wihtred), prob 11thC

@karenbar13 @ERC_Research @LitteraCarolina @ercb2c @brad_dan @CharlotteDenoel @LieveWatteeuw @bodleianlibs @BLMedieval @HyPIRUoL @uniofleicester @UoLMedieval ERC = European Research Council, which funds frontier research across the EU plus a few associate member states, now including the UK (thank goodness)

@InsularMSS @ERC_Research @LitteraCarolina @ercb2c @brad_dan @CharlotteDenoel @LieveWatteeuw @bodleianlibs @BLMedieval @HyPIRUoL @uniofleicester @UoLMedieval Thank you. Do the added letters have a meaning?

@karenbar13 @ERC_Research @LitteraCarolina @ercb2c @brad_dan @CharlotteDenoel @LieveWatteeuw @bodleianlibs @BLMedieval @HyPIRUoL @uniofleicester @UoLMedieval The evangelist is Luke, from BL Add MS 40618 f.21v, and the book is – obv. – blank in the original (my thanks to Harley MS 2965 for the lettering). It, and books in other portraits, are probably blank because they show the exterior cover of the codex, rather than an open page.

@InsularMSS @ERC_Research @LitteraCarolina @ercb2c @brad_dan @CharlotteDenoel @LieveWatteeuw @bodleianlibs @BLMedieval @HyPIRUoL @uniofleicester @UoLMedieval Looking for the gospel source of this image, I found many images with no letters, just a blank rectangle. Why would that be?

@CaballoBat @Helen_Gittos @brixworthpc The Friends of All Saints' are working on getting the tech sorted for a live online feed. It may not be possible to do it this year, but if not, certainly next year (as long as the lecturer is willing, of course!). This is a priority.

@Helen_Gittos @brixworthpc @InsularMSS Could it be zoomed? Happy to pay an entrance fee eg via Eventbrite?

For #FindsFriday (if anyone's still there!) a gorgeous portrait coin of Louis the Pious, minted in Aachen 814-816, from the Jedomĕlice hoard (Kladno, CZ) 2006. Picture from Jan Videman.

@OUPHistory @IMC_Leeds thanks @OUPHistory and @IMC_Leeds for a great conference (and discount!!).

The Guardian view on the Eadburg writings: the long lost female authors of English theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@historyleic @HyPIRUoL @NCanagarajah @MRC_Leicester @bodleianlibs 8th century (not 18th)! ie: seriously old and unusual evidence for women’s reading and engagement with literacy and book culture in early medieval England

Read all about it! Jess Hodgson's remarkable discovery of nearly invisible inscriptions made by a woman, Eadburg, in an 18thC Kent manuscript, has been picked up by The Guardian! @HyPIRUoL @NCanagarajah @MRC_Leicester @InsularMSS @bodleianlibs theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/n…

@hattie_soper We've been giggling about #talktothehand on the left for weeks. It is probably terribly serious though. Is there such a thing as #MeTooMedieval ?

thank you Eadburg for these very iconic eighth-century doodles 😭 #talktothehand

@SisterWalburga @bodleianlibs @HyPIRUoL @FactumFound @bodleiancsb @Midlands4Cities @ahrcpress @uniofleicester @UoLMedieval Probably not. Reading, writing & comprehension of a language = separate skills. Top scribes could do all 3. Einhard says that Charlemagne tried to learn to read & write, & had a tablet under his bed to practice forming letters. ‘But his effort, begun too late, achieved little’.

@InsularMSS @bodleianlibs @HyPIRUoL @FactumFound @bodleiancsb @Midlands4Cities @ahrcpress @uniofleicester @UoLMedieval Wonderful thank you! Can't help thinking the pictures and the way the name is etched in is rather childish. Do you think she was a child at the time? Is there other similar examples in other manuscripts?

Eadburg is found! @bodleianlibs by Jess Hodgkinson @HyPIRUoL & #ArchiOx with imaging specialists @FactumFound Women in the Margins: Eadburg and Bodleian Library MS Selden Supra 30 blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/theconveyor/wo… via @bodleiancsb @midlands4cities @ahrcpress @uniofleicester @UoLMedieval

📣FUNDED PHD OPPORTUNITY 📣 'Slavery and the Households of Sixth-Century Gaul' Come work with Dr Erin Dailey on his ERC project! Funding covers UK fees and living stipend (3 years). More info ⬇️ le.ac.uk/study/research…

@bodleianlibs What a team!

An amazing discovery by Prof Susan Rankin (and palaeographer Michael Gullick) shared in this afternoon’s Lyell Lecture! This was completely unknown, and tells us a lot about the scribe and his connections.