Category: Research
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Advice for research presentations
When I was a PhD student, I came across a web page (now archived here) with some very practical advice from Danuta Shanzer for presenters at conferences. I read it many times and found it very useful. Being written originally c. 2003, some of the details (e.g. slide trays and slide projectors) now seem quaint.…
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A beginner’s guide to XML and TEI
This is a very short and simple guide for people who want to start working on digital editions, but are completely unfamiliar with XML and TEI. 1. Mark-up The ML of XML stands for Mark-up Language. That is to say, XML is used to mark up a text—in other words, to add comments in and…
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Major funding success in medieval Irish studies
Ground-breaking research into the history and culture of medieval Ireland has recently been undergoing a huge expansion, with significant investment coming from funding agencies in Ireland and the EU for a wide variety of ground-breaking research projects. This era is foundational for Irish culture for several reasons: The selection of recent major projects below represents…
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A guide to finding manuscript images online
Research on early medieval Latin manuscripts has been utterly transformed in the past 15 years or so by the ever-increasing availability of high-quality digital images online. Nonetheless, these collections are spread across many different online locations, and some are not easy to find. Here is some general guidance and a collection of useful links. General…
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A second research trip on East Asian glossing
In 2013 I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in a research trip to Kyoto and Tokyo to explore, with other European colleagues, the similarities between reading practices in early medieval Europe and Japan in the period roughly 7th to 9th centuries. This summer we had the great fortune to make a return visit, where we had the opportunity…
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Report on a research trip on East Asian glossing
Between 27 July and 1 August 2013 I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in an international workshop held in Japan aiming to explore affinities between the earliest glossing traditions of Europe and East Asia.
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Maps for early Irish studies
This post aims to collect some online map resources for early medieval Ireland. A knowledge of local geography and toponymy is often indispensable for researching early Irish history and literature, but equally often inaccessible due to changing names and the disappearance of sites.