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Starting tomorrow morning, I'll be spending the next eight weeks taking part in the University of Iowa Writing Center's dissertation writing program. As a historian, …
Starting tomorrow morning, I'll be spending the next eight weeks taking part in the University of Iowa Writing Center's dissertation writing program. As a historian, …
I’m home safe from this year’s Congress, though we were flanked by some pretty spectacular lightning through much of the drive back through western Illinois …
I first came across the marvellously named Register of Wills and Inventories of the Diocese of Dublin in the Time of Archbishops Tregury and Walton, …
Above from left: Nuremberg Chronicle; Ars Moriendi; Niccolo Scillacio’s “Que in hoc libello continentur”; Celsus’ “De medicina.” I headed away from my usual campus haunts …
We’re only a couple of months into 2014 and it’s already been a tough year for archaeological sites in Ireland. First we had the loss …
Being from Ireland, I’m pretty used to heading into a museum and seeing artefacts which have been preserved in the acidic, anaerobic environment of an …
Even after a full night’s sleep and multiple cups of Barry’s Tea, I’m still not quite recovered from Outing Outsiders: Exclusion in Medieval and Early …
This Saturday I paid a visit to a new exhibition at the Musée de l’Institut du Monde Arabe, called “Lumières de la sagesse – Écoles …
A return to Paris, though at the moment I’m working at a place that’s new to me—the Bibliothèque de l’École nationale des chartes. It’s terrifically …
This was a conference of firsts—my first time in Stirling, and my first time to leave Scotland with a tan (or at least as much …