Tag: books
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Berger Prize Longlist 2025
This week I was really delighted to learn that Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and National Identity c.1420-1550 (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) has been longlisted for the Berger Prize. This came in the same week as I learned that it was to be presented to the mayor of Aubigny-sur-Nère at the opening…
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Oak Gall Ink
As part of a series of experiential learning projects, I will be preparing and using a variety of historic materials. The objective here is less about perfecting these historic methods (in terms of strict historical accuracy – although accuracy is still important) and more about what we can learn by doing rather than by using…
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Manuscript Encounters V: CCI, Paris!
This is a brief record of a research trip to Paris in December 2024. More detailed work on this will be forthcoming, but for now, this is just a record of those few days as an important research experience (archived from Bluesky). 🧵In 2024 I have had to squeeze in a good number of research…
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Manuscript Encounters IV: James Graye & a Scotichronicon
Repository National Records of Scotland Reference GD45/26/48 Title Manuscript of Walter Bower’s Scotichronicon, written by Magnus Makculloch and ‘illuminated’ by James Graye Dates [Late 15th century] This is a brief record of a trip to The National Records of Scotland archives at Thomas Thomson House on Wednesday 2 October. The primary reason for this trip…
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Manuscript Encounters III: British Library & Weston Library
For ‘Scotland on Parchment’ I received generous funding from the Paul Mellon Centre for a series of MS research trips to be undertaken this year. I originally wrote this up as a Twitter thread, but since leaving the site, I thought that I would log it here instead. I hope to include a number of…
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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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