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Turning Over the Last Leaf…
We’ve been blogging at MedievalFragments for nearly two-and-a-half years, but like all good things, it has to come to an end sometime! The project, Turning Over a New Leaf, is coming, in part, to a...
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The Last Page of the Medieval Book
By Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) I love the last page of the medieval book. Not because it means that my research of a particular manuscript is almost completed, but because the last page often provides...
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Lapidaries Rock: Medieval Books on Gems, Stones, and Minerals
By Julie Somers The medieval lapidary is essentially a book about stones, both precious and semi-precious gems and minerals as well as mythical stones that may never have existed. Closely linked to the...
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Games of Thrones? Popular Medieval Board Games
By Jenneka Janzen Living without modern entertainment luxuries, what did medieval people do for fun? Surely it wasn’t all farm labour, praying, or jousting (to play into common misconceptions)? Believe...
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Size Matters (Part 2): Giant Medieval Manuscripts!
By Jenny Weston In last week’s blogpost, Irene O’Daly explored the world of portable books — manuscripts that are small enough (and light enough) to be carried around by the user. In today’s post we...
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Size Matters: Portable Medieval Manuscripts
By Irene O’Daly Medieval books were often expensive to produce, and usually the property of institutions. But some manuscripts were copied specifically for individuals, and designed to be carried on...
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Mark Their Words: Medieval Bookmarks
By Jenneka Janzen When talking about manuscripts with the uninitiated, I usually mention how features that guide us through our modern books – running titles, subheadings, and indices, for example –...
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Fireworks, Baseball and the Dog Days of Medieval Summer
By Julie Somers Since today is Independence Day in the States and many of my friends and family will be enjoying celebrations, today’s blog post takes a look at fireworks used as spectacle in the...
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Medieval Family Trees
By Jenny Weston This post was originally inspired by a recent revelation that one of my ancestors may have lived in Leiden in the early 1600s. A particularly unexpected find — given the fact that my...
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The Beauty of Mistakes
By Irene O’Daly Medieval manuscripts often contain traces unintentionally left behind by the scribe. A casualty of spell-check and mass-production, mistakes in books, like typographical errors, are now...
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Listening to the Text: The Medieval Speech Bubble
By Julie Somers My colleagues and I at the Turning Over a New Leaf Project spend a lot of time thinking, talking, and reading about, well, reading. More specifically, we question the various forms of...
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Judging a Book by its Cover: Manuscript Bindings Without Bling
By Jenneka Janzen Our blog has featured medieval bindings before (Jenny’s blog on “bling” bindings was recently published in Quest magazine) but with an eye to the extraordinary, and extremely rare. In...
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The ‘Punctus’ and his Friends: Medieval Punctuation
By Ramona Venema Ramona Venema works as a research assistant in the Turning Over a New Leaf project. She maintains her own cookery blog. Today, a world without punctuation seems impossible. How could...
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Unfurling the Past: Ancient & Medieval Scrolls
By Jenny Weston Here at the Turning Over a New Leaf project, we tend to focus our attention on the medieval ‘codex’ — texts hand-written on parchment, folded and sewn into quires, then wrapped together...
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Reeling Back the Years: Commemorating the Middle Ages
By Irene O’Daly As preparations for the World Cup gather momentum here in the Netherlands, it is worth remembering some of the other reasons why 2014 is an important year. Many commemorations across...
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The Beauty of the Injured Book
By Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel) While our eyes are naturally drawn to pages filled with color and gold, those without decoration can be equally appealing. Indeed, even damaged goods – mutilated...
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A Window on the Middle Ages and Some Famous Clothes
We are delighted to present a guest post today by Prof. Francis Newton, Emeritus Professor of Classics at Duke University. I was once lucky enough to spend a year in a tiny, mostly mediaeval village...
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From Sound to Image, From Language to Culture; A Review of Medieval Academy...
By Julie Somers Last week the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America was held at UCLA in California. Every year this conference brings together scholars from all over the world to discuss...
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“There’s a map for that!” Visualizing the Medieval World
By Jenneka Janzen Generally, a map is a visual illustration of an area, a means to symbolically represent spatial relationships between objects, regions, and even ideas. I bet for many of us we most...
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CSI: Manuscript Edition
By Ramona Venema Ramona Venema works as a research assistant in the Turning Over a New Leaf project. She maintains her own cookery blog. When I was a small Ramona, I wanted to be an archeologist. I...
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