Manuscripts in the Curriculum
This post first appeared in Les Enluminures’ TextManuscripts blog. The first time that one of my students had the opportunity to pick up a fifteenth-century …
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Manuscripts in the Curriculum at Geneseo
I’m so pleased to be able to say that SUNY Geneseo was one of the colleges chosen to participate in Les Enluminures’ Manuscripts in the …
Handlist of Online Medieval Sources in Recent English Translation
It’s August, which means it’s time for me to think about what primary sources to include in the introductory medieval history classes I’ll be teaching …
Teaching Abélard and Héloïse
One of 2018’s wearying inevitabilities is that even the most cursory glance at the news is likely to bring you a fresh tale of sexual …
Thinking Critically About Digital Pedagogy
This week I’ve been attending the 2017 Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute (DPLI) at the University of Mary Washington. This is a week-long gathering of people …
Notes from a DH Classroom
This semester, my students have learned the narrow streets of the Marais, traced the path once taken by Paris’s city walls, and considered how the …
Papal Bull? “The Young Pope” and Teaching the Middle Ages
The HBO miniseries The Young Pope is a dreamy and often surreal look at the papacy of the fictional Pius XIII: previously Lenny Belardo, the …
Not Just Adam’s Rib: Including Women in the Medieval Survey Course
Sara Damiano’s post yesterday over at The Junto on assigning and using more primary sources by and about women in US History survey courses was …