Medieval History
For Dauvit Broun, there is nothing like touching and reading a medieval document up to 1300 years old, or reading a later reprint of something first produced that long ago.
Books, letters, charters and business papers enabled him to see beyond historical facts and connect to the past, the University of Glasgow history professor said yesterday.
"It is fantastic - awesome... When you are touching something like that, you are actually in contact with people from the past in a very direct way."
Click here to read this article from the Otago Daily Times
- Academic Says William Wallace Was Rebellion 'co-leader'
William Wallace was no more than a "co-leader" in events which sparked a Scottish uprising against Edward I in 1297, a historian has claimed. Professor Dauvit Broun argues that the killing of the Sheriff of Lanark was as much down to a knight called Richard...
- 13th Century 'facebook'
Professor Dauvit Broun, the Glasgow expert in medieval Scottish history was the principal investigator of the Paradox of Medieval Scotland project, or PoMS for short, which took three years to complete and also involved researchers from Edinburgh and...
- University Of Otago Holds Workshop On Medieval Manuscripts
A University of Otago professor has discovered an unfulfilled academic need, after 36 people signed up for a workshop he expected to interest only a handful. Last week, the university hosted the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and...
- Cfp: Touching Hoccleve
Call for Papers for 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI: "Touching Hoccleve" Deadline: September 15 Please send abstracts and inquiries to [email protected] ..."We invite papers that touch upon Hocclevean recovery in...
- Desiring The Text, Touching The Past: Towards An Erotics Of Reception
DESIRING THE TEXT, TOUCHING THE PAST: TOWARDS AN EROTICS OF RECEPTION A one-day conference co-organized by the Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition & the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto University of Bristol,...
Medieval History
Manuscripts bring history to life
For Dauvit Broun, there is nothing like touching and reading a medieval document up to 1300 years old, or reading a later reprint of something first produced that long ago.
Books, letters, charters and business papers enabled him to see beyond historical facts and connect to the past, the University of Glasgow history professor said yesterday.
"It is fantastic - awesome... When you are touching something like that, you are actually in contact with people from the past in a very direct way."
Click here to read this article from the Otago Daily Times
- Academic Says William Wallace Was Rebellion 'co-leader'
William Wallace was no more than a "co-leader" in events which sparked a Scottish uprising against Edward I in 1297, a historian has claimed. Professor Dauvit Broun argues that the killing of the Sheriff of Lanark was as much down to a knight called Richard...
- 13th Century 'facebook'
Professor Dauvit Broun, the Glasgow expert in medieval Scottish history was the principal investigator of the Paradox of Medieval Scotland project, or PoMS for short, which took three years to complete and also involved researchers from Edinburgh and...
- University Of Otago Holds Workshop On Medieval Manuscripts
A University of Otago professor has discovered an unfulfilled academic need, after 36 people signed up for a workshop he expected to interest only a handful. Last week, the university hosted the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and...
- Cfp: Touching Hoccleve
Call for Papers for 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI: "Touching Hoccleve" Deadline: September 15 Please send abstracts and inquiries to [email protected] ..."We invite papers that touch upon Hocclevean recovery in...
- Desiring The Text, Touching The Past: Towards An Erotics Of Reception
DESIRING THE TEXT, TOUCHING THE PAST: TOWARDS AN EROTICS OF RECEPTION A one-day conference co-organized by the Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition & the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto University of Bristol,...