As it’s the time of year when new graduate students collide with old handwriting for the first time, I recently wrote a short Twitter thread of advice on the topic. My colleague Laura Varnam, who publishes all kinds of helpful advice for students on her blog, encouraged me to whip up a slightly fuller treatment as a blog post, which you can find here!
This isn’t advice on approaching this or that specific regional tradition of writing, but advice on the broader attitudinal challenge of palaeographical study: how to deal with, and flourish through, the experience of learning to read a second time. (I do include a few resources online which people suggested at the end, but they’re not the point of the post.) Judging by the range of responses on Twitter, it should be useful for those studying a very wide range of places and times.
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