As his edited ‘Cambridge Companion to Matthew Paris’ nears publication, James Clark takes a look at the life and afterlife of the famous medieval polymath.
This week sees the return of our ‘research postcards’ series, as Sean Doherty and Clem Pursey, armed only with an eraser, enter the hallowed halls of Eton College in search of the Apocalypse — and some medieval French.
Sometimes, as Tom Hinton recounts in this week’s post, archive visits don’t quite deliver what we were expecting.
New arrival at the Centre, Ana de Oliveira Dias, shares her work on tenth-century sources, from the modest to the magnificent.
Thomas Hinton announces a number of upcoming GW4-funded workshops on medieval studies and the Digital Humanities.
Longstanding Centre member Sarah Hamilton offers an insight into her teaching and research.
This year, thanks to funding from Exeter’s Education Incubator fund, 8 final-year students have been co-researching, with Sarah Hamilton and Stuart Pracy (in Archaeology and History) and Ellie Jones and Emma Laws (Exeter Cathedral’s Archivist and Librarian), one of the manuscripts in Exeter Cathedral Library. The aim of the project was to pilot a new, hands-on approach […]
This year, thanks to funding from Exeter’s Education Incubator fund, 8 final-year students have been co-researching, with Sarah Hamilton and Stuart Pracy (in Archaeology and History) and Ellie Jones and Emma Laws (Exeter Cathedral’s Archivist and Librarian), one of the manuscripts in Exeter Cathedral Library. The aim of the project was to pilot a new, hands-on approach […]
Research institutions come in all shapes and sizes. As medievalists, we’re used to the rhythm of a good ‘archives trip’: the early start, the queuing to get the readers’ card set up, and (of course) the indescribable thrill when the wonderful team working there make the documents you’ve requested appear before you for the first […]
Being Human is an annual festival in celebration of the humanities, organised by the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London. Exeter’s medieval studies community has a history of organising engaging events for this wonderful project, including last year’s memorable guided tour of Exeter Cathedral; sadly, however, events such as this were no […]
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