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Listening to the Text: The Medieval Speech Bubble
By Julie Somers My colleagues and I at the Turning Over a New Leaf Project spend a lot of time thinking, talking, and reading about, well, reading. More specifically, we question the various forms of reading, as well as the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art History, Banderoles, Manuscript, Medieval, Medieval Illumination
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“There’s a map for that!” Visualizing the Medieval World
By Jenneka Janzen Generally, a map is a visual illustration of an area, a means to symbolically represent spatial relationships between objects, regions, and even ideas. I bet for many of us we most commonly use maps to find the quickest bike … Continue reading
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Tagged Art History, Manuscript, Maps, Medieval
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Historiated Initials: Letters with a Story to Tell!
By Jenny Weston Medieval initials come in all shapes and sizes. They also come with different kinds of decoration. While some feature twisty vines, flowers, and other abstract designs, others present more detailed and distinctive figures and scenes. Known as … Continue reading
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Tagged Art History, Manuscript, Medieval Scribes
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Dragons and Courtiers: Medieval Doodles in a Leiden Manuscript
By Jenneka Janzen This week’s blog is a show-and-tell of one of my new favourite finds in Leiden University’s Special Collections. Two weeks ago, Turning Over a New Leaf hosted another successful colloquium and Lieftinck Lecture. I coordinated the manuscript … Continue reading
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Tagged Art History, Court, Leiden Library Collections, Lieftinck Lectures, Manuscript, Medieval Doodles, Medieval Illumination, Research Reflections
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Medieval Book Furniture!
By Jenny Weston Today’s post is dedicated to lecterns and bookshelves — the essential furniture of the medieval book! Both of these items were regular companions of the book and they played an important role in supporting and protecting manuscripts while in … Continue reading
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Tagged Art History, furniture, lecterns
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Teeny Tiny Medieval Books!
By Jenny Weston While most of the manuscripts produced in the Middle Ages are roughly the same size as today’s books, some volumes feature outrageous dimensions—either super-large or teeny tiny! Today’s blogpost is devoted to the ‘small-end’ of this spectrum, … Continue reading
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Tagged Art History, Manuscript
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Manuscripts for the Rich & Famous (Super Bling)!
By Jenny Weston For the most part, medieval books do not look like this: But just as some people today add chrome to their cars or gems to their watches or phone cases, some medieval people chose to add ‘bling’ to their … Continue reading
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Tagged Art History, Codicology, Manuscript, Medieval Bindings, Medieval Illumination
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Strange Weather, Volcanoes, and a Roof Collapse: Secrets of the Medieval Chronicle
By Jenny Weston This past June, a great news story was published about a set of Irish medieval manuscripts that helped a team of scientists study the relationship between volcanic eruptions (!) and changing climates. In recent months, a team … Continue reading
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Tagged Art History, Manuscript
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Medieval Manuscripts in America
By Julie Somers Last week, a post by Medievalists.net provided a map of the United States with all of the available programs offered in medieval studies. There are quite a number of institutions that have either a Certificate, M.A. or … Continue reading
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Where the Wild Things Are: The Medieval Bestiary
By Jenneka Janzen While a bit denser than Maurice Sendak’s modern bed-time story, medieval bestiaries were, and still are, crowd-pleasers. A bestiary is a collection of short descriptions about a wide variety of (real or imagined) animals, birds, and in … Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, Art History, Bestiary, Manuscript, Medieval Illumination
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