A blog post by Christopher de Hamel on the importance of the Book of Hours to medieval literacies:
http://www.textmanuscripts.com/blog/entry/3_16_reading-the-book-of-hours
A blog post by Christopher de Hamel on the importance of the Book of Hours to medieval literacies:
http://www.textmanuscripts.com/blog/entry/3_16_reading-the-book-of-hours
The British Library has digitized Harley MS 978, which contains the Middle English canonĀ “Sumer is icumen in” with musical notation:
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2012/06/sumer-is-icumen-in.html
The Sexy Codicology Team has developed a map with the locations of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts, viewable by clicking on a pinpoint on the map:
http://digitizedmedievalmanuscripts.org/
The English Heritage foundation has commissioned a stone carving of Merlin’s face at legendary birthplace of King Arthur:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-35837271
SUNY Geneseo’s Dr. Jess Fenn gave an invited talk about Margery Kempe at Pacific Lutheran University on Friday, March 4. A student at PLU posted about the talk on the English Department blog:
http://www.plu.edu/english/news/dr-jess-r-fenn-suny-geneseo-visits-plu/
An article on the Green Man, with reference to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-remarkable-persistence-of-the-green-man?intcid=mod-latest
A post on women as intended or imagined readers of medieval texts from the University of Surrey:
Listen to readings of classic works in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English here:
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/stella/apps/web/readings/