Publication Roundup II
[Header image: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr. 1728] Two things to link to briefly: “On Empathy in Editing”, Guest Column, Hortulus: the Online …
Clothes Make the Premonstratensian Sister
Clothing mattered for medieval religious women—as it did for all women in the Middle Ages. It marked out rank, gender, and age, but it also …
List of Inventaires-Sommaires (Séries G & H) of French Departmental Archives
This is a list which links to digitised copies of série G and série H of the inventaires-sommaires for the archives of the northern French départements on which …
Write ON: Week 6 Goals
Day 1—Monday It felt as if every pavement on the west side of the river was closed this morning due to construction work. Making it …
Write ON: Week 5 Goals
Day 1—Monday It’s another soupy, humid day outside, but I hope that we’ll get a thunderstorm to bring us some relief before we hit the …
Write ON: Week 4 Goals
[Image above: Tomb of Barthélémy, bishop of Laon, at abbey of Foigny. Edouard Fleury, Illustrations de Antiquités et monuments du département de l’Aisne, Vol. …
Write ON: Week 3 Goals
Day 1—Wednesday I’m getting underway a little later than usual this week—I was away in Illinois for a few days, helping a friend to move …
Write ON: Week 2 Goals
Day 1—Monday I’m beginning the second week with more work on the structure of Chapter 4, primarily adding in a section on the women of …
Write ON: Week 1 Goals
Day 1—Monday Today begins the first of eight weeks of the Writing Center’s Write ON programme, which offers space and support to dissertating graduate students. …
A Premonstratensian Abbot in France Reacts to Magna Carta
[Image above: British Library Cotton MS Augustus II.106. Credit.] The 800th anniversary of Magna Carta has prompted a lot of discussion around the world about …