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
The brutalist Philips Building in central London does not look very inviting at first. Nevertheless, it is a magnet for students and researchers from all over the world working on Asia and Africa. Nowadays probably the most important institution in the Global North for research on the Global South, SOAS (School of Oriental and African … Continue reading Knowledge Production between Mission, University, and Colonial Administration: Swahili Studies in Britain and Germany, 1840s–1940s| German Historical Institute London Blog
There has been an extraordinary participation for the conference "Mathematics as an artistic experience" held on 11 July 2025 in Paris at the Hermite Amphitheatre of the Henri Poincaré Institute, and organised by the Grothendieck Institute in collaboration with the IHP and the MICS Laboratory of Centrale Supélec (Paris-Saclay University).| Istituto Grothendieck
contributed by Wesley Martin, CCHP student assistant. -The R. Allen and Beatrix T. Gardner papers included thousands of photographs taken during their research studies, which involved teaching American Sign Language (ASL) to chimpanzees. In this blog, CCHP student assistant Wesley Martin gives his perspective on making photographs from the second study (1972-1981) available to researchers. […]| Cummings Center Blog
contributed by Emily Gainer, Assistant Processing Archivist/Special Collections Librarian. Through thorough record-keeping, the R. Allen and Beatrix T. Gardner papers document two studies relating to teaching American Sign Language (ASL) to five cross-fostered chimpanzees over 15 years. Yet, the papers also document the humans involved in the Gardners’ lives and research. One of these stories […]| Cummings Center Blog
-contributed by Emily Gainer, Assistant Processing Archivist/Special Collections Librarian. In 2022, the Archives of the History of American Psychology received nearly 500 boxes of papers, films, photographs, and computer hard drives and disks from the estate of R. Allen Gardner. These papers document the Gardners’ unique research on communication with cross-fostered chimpanzees. This is one […]| Cummings Center Blog
iStock Paleographers perform an important initial step in the textual criticism of the Bible, from studying the development of ancient Greek handwriting to determining the date and provenance of undated manuscripts. One maxim of textual criticism is that, all things being equal, the earliest readings are preferred. However, ancient literary manuscripts often were not dated by […]| Text & Canon Institute
Today, Codex Vaticanus is treated as a premier biblical manuscript. It was not always so. This article explains how scholars changed their opinions about the importance of the text in Codex Vaticanus.| Text & Canon Institute
Jia Liying 賈麗英. Chutu jiandu yu Qin Han shehui shenfen zhixu yanjiu 出土簡牘與秦漢社會身份秩序研究 (Unearthed Manuscripts and the Study of the Order of Social Identities during the Qin and Han Dynasties). Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe, 2023. ISBN: 978-7-5227-1694-7, xiii+447 pages, 218 RMB. Chun Fung Tong 唐俊峰 (Heidelberg University) Since the seminal work by Nishijima Sadao […]| European Research Centre for Chinese Studies
One of the fundamental things in a medieval book is letters – those symbols that fill up page after page and that make up meaning. Each one of us human beings writes differently and considering that medieval books were made before the invention of print, it follows that the scripts they carry show a great variety in execution styles. … Continue reading The Secrets of Medieval Fonts→| medievalbooks
20-min. lecture from 6 January 2022, Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting. All details and data to be published in March 2022: Three clarifications/corrections: 1) @ 3:40, when I say …| [quem dixere chaos]
