Dr David Rundle

Fun! Where was it bound?

I saw KWWA last week. We should have raised a glass to him.

+ item, multae sunt conditionales necessariae quarum antecedentia sunt impossibilia, ut ‘Si tu es asinus, tu es animal’
So says Richard Lavenham.

Sometimes you cannot fault medieval logic:
sed non omnis bona causalis est bona consequentia, sicut ista causalis est bona “Thomas studet, quia vult esse clericus’, et tamen non est bona consequentia, quia non sequitur 'Thomas vult esse clericus; ergo, Thomas studet’. +

Palaeographers: you definitely should consider applying to this illustrious fund:

I am receiving emails offering 'last minute gift ideas'. I will not give in to buying Christmas presents so ridiculously early.

When a plain old manicula is not sufficient (@magdalenoxford.bsky.social MS. lat. 92).

News - Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies - Research at Kent

Congratulations to @emallis.bsky.social on being this year's @memsunikent.bsky.social winner of the Jayne Wackett Dissertation Prize!
research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...

Final Palaeography session of the term for our @memsunikent.bsky.social MA students and, as a special treat, they are having #fragment fun at their second home, the Archives of @cburycathedral.bsky.social.

Did they say they had that Justinian in the back of their cab once?

The back cover of the new issue of @mediumaevum.bsky.social features my predecessor, the late great Nigel Palmer, with an appeal for the travel fund being established in his name. For more on that, visit mediumaevum.org.uk/donate/palme... .

The latest issue of @mediumaevum.bsky.social in my editorial hands and soon to be in yours. It ranges from Beowulf to Henry VIII, from Sicily to Scandinavia, and includes articles by the likes of @edolmans.bsky.social, plus a review of recent Silk Roads exhibitions by @peterfrankopan.bsky.social.

That if about the fize of it.

I read these.

Thank you, @hltn.bsky.social, but I cannot recall having to give a talk last week. Of course, I know I have man reasons to be humble and none of us can pretend we can do it all ourselves. That is to say, I wish this had been me.

What an inspiring session that was. As @laurajcleaver.bsky.social says, two highly impressive papers suggestive of great work ahead in late medieval/ Renaissance palaeography and codicology. Thank you to both speakers.

What did he eat to cause that dream?

Bookmarks of yesteryear. A leaf between the leaves of this manuscript @magdalenoxford.bsky.social

AI hallucinating its own usefulness.

s. xvi1?

Yesterday the latest cohort of @memsunikent.bsky.social MA students graduated. Congratulations to all of you on your success. I enjoyed teaching you and wish you all the best for your next adventures!
research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...

And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.

Aachen not agree more.

These are going from Baden to wurst.

How to tease:

+ So the long absence of an online catalogue of mss is a disaster for scholarship - some research has simply to be paused - but it does remind us that using it was never sufficient as the sole method of searching.

Except let's not be starry-eyed about the former online catalogue. Terrible for searching by shelfmarks, capricious in what it would find with any one search term. Of course, it was dependent on digitisations of print catalogues themselves variable in quality. +

Well, forbidden fruit --> guilt...

TYPO: Dr Phoebe MACINDOE @saims.bsky.social

And from Cecilia Sideri (University of Warwick) on 'A paper war: the manuscript tradition of Roberto Valturio's De re militari'. Tuesday, 25th November at 5:30pm. Online and in person.