The unique holdings of the medieval monastic library of Lorsch, currently scattered over 68 libraries worldwide, are being re-compiled into a virtual library.
The Walters Art Museum Receives $265,000 NEH Grant to Digitize Over 100 Flemish Manuscripts
March 28, 2012 By
This third NEH grant allows the Walters to provide public access to an even greater number of its illuminated medieval manuscripts
Tweeting History: Social Media meets Mummies and Moats
March 8, 2012 By
Last week, dozens of Toronto-area bloggers gathered at a local bar, bringing with them their iPhones and Blackberries. Amidst watching Viking re-enactors fight it out on stage and playing trivia, the group got ready for the main event of the evening – watching a tv show about the Pergamon and Neues Museums in Berlin, Germany, and tweeting history.
Bodleian Libraries Cairo Genizah collection now available online
March 5, 2012 By
From the store room to the web: Bodleian launches website featuring its 25,000 Cairo Genizah fragments
The Ghent Altarpiece in 100 Billion Pixels
February 27, 2012 By
It is now possible to zoom into the intricate, breathtaking details of one of the most important works of art from the medieval world, thanks to a newly completed website focused on the Ghent Altarpiece.
New Website Showcases Suffolk’s Medieval Masterpieces
February 7, 2012 By
This month sees the launch of a new website designed to showcase one of the most important sets of medieval wall paintings to be found in East Anglia
University of Bradford safeguarding skeletons using 3D digitisation
November 29, 2011 By
The University of Bradford has secured almost £750 000 to safeguard skeletons from world-renowned collections based in Bradford and London.
Medieval records of the Church Courts of York now online
November 28, 2011 By
From arguments about church taxes on liquorice, roses and pigeon dung, to families disputing wills and inheritance, the records paint a vivid picture of the social, economic, political, religious and emotional world of people living in a period from the 14th to 19th centuries.
Mmmmm….Medievalicious! Medieval Soups from Battle Castle
November 26, 2011 By
The good people at Battle Castle are offering their viewers three medieval soup recipes, just in time for Christmas.
Gruesome murders to mythical beasts: Britain’s historic church wallpaintings now can be seen online
November 22, 2011 By
Earlier this month, the Churches Conservation Trust – the national charity protecting historic churches at risk – launched a brand new online resource providing an interactive guide to just some of the fine wallpaintings in its care
New project to examine immigration to medieval England
November 18, 2011 By
The study will create a huge database of around 80,000 immigrants who lived in England between 1330 and 1550.
Discover Medieval Chester project gets funding
November 8, 2011 By
The ‘Discover Medieval Chester’ project, which intends to promote the rich history of medieval Chester as a multi-cultural, multi-lingual frontier city, has has received an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Knowledge Transfer Fellowship to the value of £172 000.
New App features Bodleian Treasures
November 8, 2011 By
The Bodleian Libraries have launched a mobile app featuring a selection of the rarest, most important and most evocative objects from the Bodleian collections.
Profiling English Landed Society in 1066
November 4, 2011 By
Professor Lewis details the project, Profile of a Doomed Elite: The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066 project, which involves completing a prosopography of landowners from England in 1066
Project underway to preserve Scotland’s medieval churches
October 24, 2011 By
A project led by the University of St Andrews could help preserve historically valuable medieval churches in Scotland. The scheme aims to discover which churches in Scotland are survivors of the Reformation. A pilot for the Corpus of Scottish Medieval Parish Churches project has already analysed 105 buildings in the dioceses of Dunkeld and Dunblane. […]
British Library launches new Medieval and Renaissance images app
October 19, 2011 By
In conjunction with their exhibition Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination, the British Library has created a Royal Manuscripts app for Apple iPad and iPhone users, which features over 500 images from 58 manuscripts in their collection. The app is available for download at a cost of just £1.49 for the iPhone and £2.99 for […]
The Walters Art Museum Removes Copyright Restrictions from more than 10,000 Images
October 4, 2011 By
The Walters Art Museum announces the launch of its redesigned works of art website with the removal of copyright restrictions on more than 10,000 online artwork images through a Creative Commons license . In addition to being able to download these images for free, the site introduces a new look and feel, and enhanced searching, […]
New website: Late Medieval English Scribes
October 3, 2011 By
Researchers from the universities of York, Oxford and Sheffield have created a new website that aims to identifying the scribes who made the first copies of works by major authors of the 14th and early 15th centuries, including Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland. Late Medieval English Scribes is an online catalogue of all scribal hands […]
Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah now available online
September 21, 2011 By
Oxford University’s Bodleian Libraries have digitized and made available online part of the first comprehensive code of Jewish Law, Mishneh Torah (http://maimonides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Written between 1170 and 1180 by the rabbinic scholar Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, known as Maimonides or by his Hebrew acronym Rambam, the Mishneh Torah is one of the most important manuscripts of […]
Digitized Medieval Manuscripts in the Classroom: A Project in Progress
August 17, 2011 By
Digitized Medieval Manuscripts in the Classroom: A Project in Progress By Andrea Winkler The History Teacher, Vol. 35:2 (2002) Introduction: For many medievalists, the increase in digitized manuscripts has been a wonderful by-product of the Internet. Several ongoing projects provide scholars with access to an increasing number of useful manuscripts. Most of these projects are available […]
Website Profile: On the Tudor Trail
August 2, 2011 By
For Natalie Grueninger, editor of On the Tudor Trail, the start of her interest in the Tudors, and Anne Boleyn in particular, started with a trip to the Tower of London in 2000. “It was a very cold winter’s morning and I walked the grounds of the Tower,” she says, “absorbing its history and its […]
Earliest medieval map of Britain put online
August 2, 2011 By
A fifteen-month research project of the earliest surviving geographically recognizable map of Great Britain, known as the Gough Map, provides some revealing insights into one of the most enigmatic cartographic pieces from the Bodleian collections. The findings are recorded on a newly-launched website. The fifteen-month AHRC-funded project used an innovative approach that explores the map’s […]
Database explains strange survival of irregular verbs
July 19, 2011 By
An historical study of the development of irregular verbs in the hundreds of Romance languages including French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Catalan has revealed how these structures survive. Experts have also examined why they are learned by successive generations despite ‘making no sense’ or, apparently, having any function in the language. Oxford University has […]
New online version of The Acts and Monuments by John Foxe released
July 19, 2011 By
A new interactive version of The Acts and Monuments by John Foxe has been published online by the University of Sheffield. This work, available at http://www.johnfoxe.org, is an ecclesiastical history that is regarded as an essential resource for researchers of English history, religion and literature. The Acts and Monuments details the history of the Protestants […]
Approaches to Bibliography and Information Technology for Medieval Culture: The Experience of the International Medieval Bibliography
July 8, 2011 By
Approaches to Bibliography and Information Technology for Medieval Culture: The Experience of the International Medieval Bibliography By Alan V. Murray Paper given at the Yeongweol Yonsei Forum (2011) Introduction: One of the major problems in the study and teaching of the cultural heritage of medieval Europe is the sheer magnitude of the volume of published […]
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