There is a lot of advice about academic writing on the internet, usually full of imperative verbs, and I don’t feel I’m really qualified to…
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Before I witter about what I’ve been up to, some links.
Jenni Nuttall has been writing a series of helpful guides to different aspects of Middle English poetics on her blog. I can see these being primarily useful for an undergraduate audience, but I’ll admit I found reading them helpful myself—they’ve reminded me of some questions about the mechanics of form. What do we notice about the form of a poem, and why do we notice those things and not others? What did people notice in poems five hundred years ago, and how can we tell? These are questions which hang around the periphery of a chapter I’m returning to right now.
Also, the Bodleian’s new Weston Library is open and Sjoerd Levelt has a write-up. I visited on Monday and second his praise (and his hope that Duke Humphrey’s Library can remain as a reading room of some sort!).
Leave a CommentSince my last post news has come that the University of London is reconsidering the closure of the Institute of English Studies. Which is good. Let’s hope the IES is saved.
Leave a CommentFirst of all, a long-overdue link: Colleen Curran wrote up these notes on using the Vatican Library. I was linking to them in a post I half-drafted a month ago, but the post died in draft! So I’ve linked them now. This also seems like a good moment to mention that Colleen is one of the organisers of this exciting (and free!) conference in London on 3 June.
One CommentI’ve updated the material in this post to refer to the Bodleian’s new Weston Library here.
Leave a CommentI’m told that my notes on making manuscript research trips to the British Library were useful, so here’s something in a similar vein for another library with very significant manuscript holdings, Cambridge University Library.
Leave a CommentReading this useful post on registering at the British Library reminded me that I’d been meaning to write up some practical remarks on visiting the place: things I wish I’d known myself when I started making trips there. I’m sure there are plenty of things I could still do more efficiently on day trips to the BL, but I hope that none of the following thoughts are wrong and that some of them might be useful to someone.
One CommentThe news [EDIT: (much!) more detail here] of the Wellcome Library’s purchase of a fifteenth-century medical almanac has been doing the rounds in the last…
Leave a CommentIn the last couple of days I’ve been conducting a rapid survey of particular measurements in a group of manuscripts. Today I was looking at…
Leave a CommentSomething I should probably have said in my previous post, because it took me a distressingly long time to start doing it myself: if acid-free…
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