Author: bryonycoombs
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Experiential Learning & Close Looking: Illuminating the Zodiac Man
Experiential learning is a philosophy of learning built around the idea of learning by doing and then reflecting on the experience. This current project aims to do just that. Learning about manuscript illumination as a process by trying to recreate the objects of my studies using (as far a possible) historically appropriate materials, methods and…
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Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance
Scotland, France and National Identity c.1420-1550 has been published! Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance Scotland, France and National Identity c.1420-1550 has now been published and is available with EUP. They did a beautiful job: with 321 pages and 100 colour images it is a lovely book.
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Not long now:
Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance is due for publication in September 2024 and I could not be more excited to see it in print! I have been working over the summer a whole host of related material which I will link to on the blog in due course, but for now here are details…
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Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance…
Delighted that Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance Scotland, France and National Identity c.1420-1550 Features on the latest EUP blog post. Celebrating 75 years of publishing in Scottish Studies, Ersev Ersoy looks at exciting future directions in this field.
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Adornes Returns: The 600 yr Anniversary of Anselm Adornes
Anselm Adornes was born on the 8 December 1424 in Bruges to Pieter Adornes and Elisabeth Bradericx. In 2024, 600 years after Anselm’s birth, the Adornes Estate will be organising a series of activities to mark this important anniversary. As part of this program of year long events, we will be organising some activities in…
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Gaelic and Scottish Manuscripts at CRC
Spent a fantastic few hours on 4 December being introduced to the Gaelic manuscripts in CRC at Edinburgh University Library. There was a particularly interesting series of medical texts and fragments dating to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: The McBeath Gaelic Medical Manuscript, 16th century, a late-15th C Materia medica, a fragment of the treatise…
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‘Scotland on Parchment’ has Funding!
I am completely delighted to announce that the project ‘Scotland on Parchment: Scraped, Limned and Bound’ has received generous funding from the Paul Mellon Centre. This will allow for trips to Glasgow, Cambridge, Oxford, London, Windsor, Dundee, Durham, Paisley, Paris and Boulogne-sur-mer…… phew. Next year will be busy. Many more manuscript encounters to come!
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Manuscript Encounters II: The V & A
I finally managed to arrange to see an extraordinary late fifteenth-century manuscript at the V & A in Dundee, whilst it was being removed from display and before it travelled back into storage in London. The manuscript did not disappoint and will form a case-study for one chapter in Scotland on Parchment – more to…
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Book Week Scotland
‘People and Books in Fifteenth-Century Scotland and England: Fresh Research Directions’ As part of Book Week Scotland I headed up to Aberdeen to give a talk with Jane Pirie called ‘People and Books in Fifteenth-Century Scotland and England: Fresh Research Directions.’ For this we were each discussing our new research on fifteenth-century manuscripts and printed…
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Manuscript Encounters I: Alnwick Castle
Like all good research trips, today started with gulps of strong coffee and a sprint for a train… Working on manuscripts has involved many memorable research trips over the years. This latest excursion was as memorable as any but we will come to that in a moment. Rather than document the results of my research,…
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