thinking of the world in spheres and symbols

Nicole Oresme's Livre du ciel et du monde, 1377

trying out tumblr

http://medievalista.tumblr.com Not much there yet, but more to come. I'm hoping tumblr will work better for the images I want to share.

digitized medieval manuscripts

Another useful source from digital medievalist. http://digitizedmedievalmanuscripts.org/ This maps digitized manuscripts, allowing one to find all the digitized sources in a region, with links to the libraries. So much more intuitive than trying to go lists of cities. It seems like a wonderful tool for graduate students beginning to look at medieval sources. Also, it can be constantly updated by groupsourcing.

imagining the apocalypse

Some images from my recent lecture on the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages

breathtaking

Why didn't I see this before my lectures on medieval architecture?

The Vatican and Oxford University are digitizing manuscripts

this is truly an exciting venture, with so many potential benefits. I might never leave my computer again.

Beowulf - Grendel's Ambush - Bagby

http://www.youtube.com/v/E806VmFC8io?version=3&autohide=1&feature=share&autoplay=1&autohide=1&attribution_tag=12NdIhFCQEC-DG1_HalVxA&showinfo=1

 Part of Benjamin Bagby's performance of Beowulf.  Very interesting and entertaining.  Lovely to have him on campus.