Write ON: Week 4 Goals
Day 1—Monday I spent most of yesterday working my way through a series of Latin primary sources and journal articles published by some nineteenth-century French …
Day 1—Monday I spent most of yesterday working my way through a series of Latin primary sources and journal articles published by some nineteenth-century French …
Day 1—Monday The severe weather sirens went off last night, waking me up at midnight and leaving me so full of adrenaline that I couldn’t …
Day 1—Monday For today, a change of tack. Having spent the weekend translating twelfth-century Latin charters for my dissertation, I’m going to spend today’s session …
Day 1—Monday: One of the things that I find difficult about tackling a long-form writing project like my dissertation is that I’m not a linear …
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 …