A project at Birkbeck College, University of London in which medievalist Anthony Bale collaborates with animation artist Shay Hamias to bring medieval manuscripts to life:
Controversy over the restoration of Chartres Cathedral
Does removing “dirt” from significant architecture (or sculpture, or painting) constitute restoration or a removal of accumulated history?
(Click on the picture to access the article.)
On Race and Medieval Studies
A statement by medievalists of color:
http://medievalistsofcolor.com/medievalists-of-color-/on-race-and-medieval-studies
Eve of Wilton and Medieval Women’s Literary Culture
A blog post by Diane Watt from her Leverhulme project:
http://www.ub.edu/proyectopaisajes/index.php/spaces/blog-en
Listen to Plainchant at a Somerset Abbey
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p050g4hf
Chaucer Hitteth the Web
The British Library has digitized a manuscript of the Canterbury Tales:
http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2017/04/chaucer-hitteth-the-web.html
Opera in Middle English!
David Wallace reviews the Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s recent performance of a version of Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale:
The Tale of Januarie: Translingualism and Anxietie, Sexuality and Time
The Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge Digitizes Manuscripts
The Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge has digitized its medieval manuscripts, and they’re open access.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/wren-digital-library/
The Tabula Rogeriana Of Al-Idrisi
An article about one of the medieval world’s most wondrous maps:
http://www.publicmedievalist.com/greatest-medieval-map/
Female Scribes in Early Medieval Manuscripts
http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2017/03/female-scribes-in-early-manuscripts-.html