Longstanding Centre member Sarah Hamilton offers an insight into her teaching and research.
This year, thanks to funding from Exeterâs 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 Cathedralâs 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 Exeterâs 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 Cathedralâs 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, weâre used to the rhythm of a good âarchives tripâ: the early start, the queuing to get the readersâ card set up, and (of course) the indescribable thrill when the wonderful team working there make the documents youâve 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 […]
Almost ten years ago, during my doctoral research, I was rifling through boxes at the Archives nationales in Paris for the first time. Guided by preliminary references I had found in notes kindly provided by Prof. Nicholas Vincent, I was mining a very rich seam through the Ordre de Malte section of the S series. […]
Just over two months ago, we announced the start of a new project based at the Centre for Medieval Studies here in Exeter: Learning French in Medieval England. Our aim is to produce a digital edition of Walter de Bibbesworthâs Tretiz, a rhymed French vocabulary of the mid-thirteenth century that has attracted significant critical interest […]
As my colleagues at Exeter know, I have spent the past few years looking at the concept of news in the Middle Ages. Iâve been considering what the idea of ânewsâ meant in the medieval world, what sources remain for news, and what studies of news in the Middle Ages might tell us about news […]
May is an exciting month for Exeterâs Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. As a part of Dr Levi Roachâs AHRC funded grant âForging Memory: Falsified Documents and Institutional History in Europe, c.970-1020â, a series of events will be held across the University, and the Cathedral and its Library & Archives exploring Exeterâs genuine and fake medieval documents. In […]
In June and July 2018, Julia Hopkin, an MA student in experimental archaeology at Exeter, spent some time in Exeter Cathedral Library and Archives, funded by the university as part of the College of Humanities’ student internship scheme. Her job was to create a guide for students (at all levels) who might be interested in using the […]
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