by georgiareeves | Jun 10, 2020 | Summer Schools
Our London International Palaeography Summer School (LIPSS) tutors offer specialized training in a wide variety of subjects, but they share a love of manuscripts. Here five of the team tell us about why they are passionate about palaeography and how they got into...
by georgiareeves | Jun 9, 2020 | Summer Schools
Dr Carol Farr, Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies A super-star attraction of Trinity College Dublin, the Book of Kells is known to many people across the globe. Besides being a recognisable emblem of Irish culture, it is a complex object. Probably...
by georgiareeves | Jun 8, 2020 | Summer Schools
Clare Lees, Director of the Institute of English Studies, Professor of Medieval Literature In 2013, I worked with a group of poets associated with the Newcastle Centre for Literary Arts, commissioned to respond to the ‘return’ of the great early medieval manuscript,...
by georgiareeves | May 22, 2020 | History of the Book, MA Programme
Amy Kaufman (MRes History of the Book) Like many IES students I had planned to spend the spring digging (very gently) through London’s rich archives and special collections rather than experiencing its arrival for a second time at my mother-in-law’s house in Muskoka,...
by georgiareeves | Mar 10, 2020 | History of the Book
Student Mark Pickett (MA History of the Book) wonders at the splendour created in historical literary texts by the then emerging technologies. (Originally posted on Talking Humanities) The Latin root noun textus (meaning ‘texture, tissue, structure’) indicates the...
