Together with my colleague Eleanor Jackson, I have written another blogpost for the British Library’s Medieval Manuscripts blog for your post-Christmas enjoyment. What can we tell about manuscripts which have feline pawprints all over them? Pour yourself a glass of mulled wine and enjoy. And get that cat off your keyboard. Cats, get off the…
Month: December 2018
Making connections in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: British Library exhibition review
As I posted a couple of months ago, the British Library’s exhibition Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War is now open, and will be until February. The Library has the world’s largest collection of manuscripts from pre-Conquest England, but these are paired with high-prestige manuscripts loaned by other institutions, and with other objects such as jewellery,…
New job! (again)
As discussed in a recent post, the websites of the Polonsky Foundation England and France 700-1200 digitisation project have now been launched: 800 manuscripts from the British Library and Bibliothèque nationale de France can be found fully digitised on this site, while another, interpretative website hosts several fascinating articles and videos about them. As this…
For the Wynn 