A scholarly resource states that Aldhelm studied in Ireland. Aldhelm's infamous Letters to Heahfrith and Witfrith describe Aldhelm's disdain for Ireland and contemporary Irish scholars. Aldhelm was trained by Máeldub, an Irishman who came to England.
That 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Malmesbury was caused by Aldhelm rolling over in his grave
New Directions in the History of Liturgy Study Day
Saturday 25 April 2026
Cambridge, English Faculty, 10-5
Tessa Webber, Henry Parkes, Juliette Day, Sarah Hamilton - & more - Bede's deathbed, Canterbury pontificals, the early history of Prime, C14th Frankfurt...
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No notes.
I didn't work on the Old English side; I did the manuscripts and the Anglo-Latin side.
The cover and a spread of History Today. The cover story is Servants on the Grand Tour. An early modern engraving shows a man, standing next to some ruins and gesturing up at a statue.
🚨 Job alert! History Today is hiring a PT freelance copy editor, either remote or in the office. Please share widely! www.historytoday.com/jobs
A mirrored half-uncial-shaped g?
This is it. All of the other g's can go home.
(Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 751, fol. 39v)
This email, of course, included a rant about the previous edition.
One of the more interesting e-mail subject lines I have crafted
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all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
The chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography are my go-to for this exact question.
Oh, Brandon, no.
My dad (not a medievalist) asked me what I'm doing in my current job so he can tell his friends, so I told him about translating and interpreting Boniface's letter to Æthilbald and Boniface asking him to please stop seducing the nuns. My dad... didn't know what to do with that information.
I have to say, I think I'd prefer to be living Leoba's life right now. That's saying something.
I've been working on translating Boniface's letters all day, and then I stupidly took a break and checked the news.
"The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay." Matthew 28: 5-6
(London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius C VI, fols. 13v, 14v
The Last Supper and the Washing of the Disciples Feet #MaundyThursday
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 4452; Evangeliary: Pericopes of Henry II; circa 1007 CE-1012 CE; Reichenau; f.105v
For Maundy Thursday, more Bobbio Missal. "our main and most competent scribe...has some locally-influenced feelings about what the correct vowels might be." See the whole thread for details, some transcription, and useful links. ⚓
#paleography #medievalsky #liturgy #HolyWeek
hi #Medievalsky
Does anybody happen to have a pdf/scan they could send me, of:
Peter Sawyer, "The Bloodfeud in Fact and Fiction" Acta Jutlandica 63.2 (1987), 27-38 ?
Many thanks in advance! 📖😀
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A black-and-white tuxedo cat sits between a researcher and her laptop.
How am I meant to work like this (this is not even my cat)
Latin Morph!
A new site for practicing your Latin word forms (morphology). You can practice nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns.
latin-morph.streamlit.app
That makes it even cooler!
I love the fact that you've used the Insular/half-uncial-shaped g!! And it's bilinear, too!
(no offence to the other libraries in which I've studied)
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