Dr David Rundle
@drdavidrundle.bsky.social
Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
A personal update: bonaelitterae.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/a...
A Year of Viewing Virtuously
This post comes as a personal announcement. If you email me today, you will receive an autoreply which is set to send for the next 365 days. That is because I am very fortunate to be in receipt of …
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Delighted to be at this year's Nightingale Lecture @unikent.bsky.social, supported by @memsunikent.bsky.social and @camems.bsky.social, to hear Prof. Mark Bailey on the late medieval economy. We start with Sheila Sweetinburgh's introduction.
A triumphal arch assumes a triumph. A triumph assumes a slave whispering in the triumphant soldier's ear 'Remember, you too are human.' An arch does not work without a victory, its military general, and a slave ensuring humility. Those add up to a lot of preconditions to fulfil.
Some nice #fragment news here:
Girton College, University of Cambridge@girtoncollege.bsky.social · 3w ago📚 A medieval mystery solved nearly a century later. Girton Fellow Dr James Wade and Dr Katie Walter of @sussex.ac.uk have reunited six lost pages of a medieval bestseller with its manuscript, now held 3,500 miles away at Yale. Read the full story: 🔎 🔗 www.girton.cam.ac.uk/news/reunite...
While on Guernsey this last weekend, I went on a little pilgrimage to see the wall-paintings in the tiny chapel of St Apolline.
Ahead of the launch today of the manuscript fragments of Guernsey, on which @tamarajatkin.bsky.social and I have been working with the Island Archives for the last couple of years, I have written up one of my favourite finds: lostmss.org.uk/highlights - Hidden Devotion on Guernsey
Highlights | Lost Manuscripts
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Ahead of this week's workshop on the fragments recently unearthed by Guernsey Archivist, Callum Tostevin-Hall, and on which @tamarajatkin.bsky.social and myself have been working, here is a taster of the sort of thing they include: lostmss.org.uk/lost-manuscr...
GF 09 | Lost Manuscripts
Three fragments survive from this manuscript which is a witness to the interest in Ovid in France at the turn of the twelfth to the thirteenth century. The text has several errors but it is provided w...
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I am sure that textura praescissa, showoff that it is, gets all the fun.
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · last mo.As we enter the 'ber months, we lay down our dusty scrolls and sacred candles and somberly pose the question to you, dear reader...which Gothic protagonist do you identify with best?
This year's Fifteenth Century Conference, hosted by @memsunikent.bsky.social, has begun. We are being taken along thoroughfare and across the seas on our first session.
Chair of Art History at Oxford advert is now live, and the important bit is this: "We welcome applications from candidates with expertise in any area of the History of Art". You've got till October 19 to apply or tell somebody else to. A wonderful job, go for it. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Sub specie aeternitatis, Caligula was not so bad. He only made his horse into a senator. And it was just his boots that were little.
And a play with an interesting backstory! You will want to read @tamarajatkin.bsky.social's article, co-written with J. R. Mattison, when it comes out...
Tamara Atkin@tamarajatkin.bsky.social · 2mo agowww.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Working on and with fragments is always an excitement and privilege, but as a scholar who sometimes writes about drama, identifying one of these fragments as derived from a fifteenth-century secular play text has been particularly thrilling.
Great to see this also being picked up by the BBC with more eloquent quotes from my collaborator @tamarajatkin.bsky.social than I could ever muster: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Medieval Guernsey reading habits revealed in hidden manuscripts
Archivists discover 17 manuscript fragments from medieval times were repurposed as book covers.
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Dr David Rundle@drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 2mo agoTell me what you know about the literary culture of medieval Guernsey, then read this article with some exciting #manuscript #fragment news. What has made this such fun is collaborating with Guernsey's archivists and the ever-excellent @tamarajatkin.bsky.social : www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
That's too kind of you, @thecelticist.bsky.social . Really, too kind: congrats should go to Callum at Guernsey Island Archives who do the sleuthing and to @tamarajatkin.bsky.social for all her insights. In short, medievalists are great at team work!
Elizabeth Boyle@thecelticist.bsky.social · 2mo agoCongratulations to @drdavidrundle.bsky.social on this exciting #MedievalSky research! 📚
Good to see the Guardian story in hard copy: as I am a 'manuscript expert', you would expect me to want to touch the page. The fragments themselves will soon be on the Lost Manuscripts website: lostmss.org.uk And @tamarajatkin.bsky.social has an article in preparation on a particularly exciting one.
I was first contacted by Callum at the Island Archives in 2024, and it feels like barely a month goes by without a new discovery! Shout out not only to him and @drdavidrundle.bsky.social but also J.R Mattison, with whom I’ve been writing about the Griselda fragment. Excellent collaborators all!
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2mo agoResearchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’
Researchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’
Manuscript fragments hiding in plain sight shed light on medieval Guernsey’s literary life
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Tell me what you know about the literary culture of medieval Guernsey, then read this article with some exciting #manuscript #fragment news. What has made this such fun is collaborating with Guernsey's archivists and the ever-excellent @tamarajatkin.bsky.social : www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Manuscript fragments hiding in plain sight shed light on medieval Guernsey’s literary life
Researchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’
theguardian.com
'Drought and heatwave - working together' Yes, I suppose they are, the nefarious so-and-sos.
A. C. de la Mare famed for her ability to identify scribes' hands: It is rarely possible to date and localize a written text from the evidence of script alone. Few manuscripts are securely dated, and a palaeographer's judgement, based on personal experience and visual memory, may be mistaken
A reminder that registration for this year's 15th Century Conference ends on 21st August. Don't miss out on the stimulation and the fun!
Dr David Rundle@drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 4mo agoExciting news for anyone interested in the fifteenth century. The UK's annual conference will this year take place in the beautiful city of Canterbury on 3rd-5th September 2026, hosted by MEMS @kent.ac.uk - and registration is now open. Hope you can join us: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...
Ballot paper of nearly a metre. There again, a charge sheet could be longer. BBC News - Clacton by-election ballot list costing four times more - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Clacton by-election ballot list costing four times more
The list of 34 candidates standing in the Clacton by-election is nearly a metre long.
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Really enjoyed the exhibition on that most gifted of Elizabethan poets, Christopher Marlowe, as a son of Canterbury at the city's Beaney Museum. Congratulations to @memsunikent.bsky.social's @loughnrv.bsky.social and the team on a stimulating show.
