By Sarah Peters Kernan Listen here, or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! Sarah Kernan speaks with Sara Charles, a medieval book historian at the University of London. Sara recently published The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion Books, 2024). She incorporates “historical remaking” into her research practices and she shares her knowledge with broader audiences through workshops, social media, and her website, teachingmanuscripts.com. Follow Sara on B...| The Recipes Project
Introduction All authors remember that important day—that fateful moment—when they finished the last sentence for the first draft of their novel. Authors often go through many revisions while crafting the first draft of their novel. After the first draft is complete, one of the next critical steps in the publishing process is finding a professional […] The post What a Professional Editor Can Do for You! appeared first on Ebook Launch.| Ebook Launch
By Nikianna Dinenis A familiar image of the English Reformation is one of destruction, of Henry VIII dissolving nine hundred monasteries, scattering their rich manuscript collections to the four winds, and transforming the English landscape into a graveyard of Catholic belief and practice. In her new book Reading Practice, Melissa Reynolds presents us with a … Continue reading The Uses and Abuses of Medieval Manuscripts in Reformation England →| The Recipes Project
Voor je je boek laat (proef)drukken, is het belangrijk je boek van voor tot achter onder de loep te nemen. In dit blog krijg je uitleg over een aantal van de punten waar je dan op let.| Voor fictie en verhalende non-fictie
Decoding ancient manuscripts has long puzzled scholars, with some texts remaining inscrutable throughout history. The… The post Mysterious Books History Can’t Explain (Video) appeared first on Historic Mysteries.| Historic Mysteries
Contributor: Tim Sommer Location: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Description: This manuscript notebook contains fair copies of several poems Shelley wrote during his time in Italy between late 1819 and the summer of 1820. It provides fascinating evidence of the process of creative labour and of the different stages of composition a text … Continue reading "The Harvard Shelley Notebook"| European Romanticisms in Association
