U of T Centre for Medieval Studies

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The University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies hosts one of the largest interdisciplinary medieval studies programs in the world. https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/

New today: me in the Berlin Review, responding to @sentantiq on Nolan's Odyssey, but also on the collapse of literacy in contemporary America, senses of apocalypse in the humanities, and a relevant new Hölderlin translation: blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

A.V. Marraccini · Our Age of No-Brow

Nobody killed the humanities. And yet they lie in guilt and agony in their cave, reaching for the last roasted scraps of the Sun God’s sacred cattle. What does this end-of-the-world Odyssey summer mea...

blnreview.de

Karen Limper-Herz, M. Michèle Mulchahey, DesBib lab instructor Donna Sy & RBS staff members Barbara Heritage, Piper Farmer & Katie Hodges-Kluck examined a pasteboard book cover at lunch today. Farmer is describing this & two other detached covers bearing medieval waste for use in future RBS classes.

A group of five women gather around a table leaning in to examine a large pasteboard book cover that one of them is holding. Behind them is a large wooden bookcase. A pasteboard book cover with partial imprints of mirror text from a medieval manuscript leaf and various doodles in black ink. Detail of an old pasteboard book cover with a small drawing of a fish in black ink on it.