Festival of Early Drama takes place in Toronto from June 5th to 7th

Festival of Early Drama

Poculi Ludique Societas (PLS) continues its year-long celebration of fifty years of performance research practice at the University of Toronto with the Festival of Early Drama.

2015 Toronto Old English Colloquium

Toronto Old English Colloquium

The annual Toronto Old English Colloquium will be taking place at the Centre for Medieval Studies in the University of Toronto, on Friday, May 1st, 2015.

Is the Author Really Better than his Scribes? Problems of Editing Pre-Carolingian Latin Texts

Page of text (folio 160v) from a Carolingian Gospel Book (British Library, MS Add. 11848), written in Carolingian minuscule. Text is Vulgate Luke 23:15-26.

Latin texts composed after ca. 600 and before the Carolingian writing re- forms that began in the late eighth century present problems that editors rarely have to face when working on classical texts (including most writings of late antiquity), or texts written after ca. 800.

New software program allows dating of medieval manuscripts from popular words

Gelila Tilahun created software that helps date texts from 1066 to the 1400s (photo by Diana Tyszko / University of Toronto)

‘These words have their own life. It’s amazing how we can decipher the date of a document based on the evolution of word usage.’

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