“God helpe minum handum” – God help my hands. Making manuscripts was hard work, as these early medieval English colophons reveal. Source: Scribal complaints: Early medieval English copyists and their colophons « Dutch Anglo-Saxonist Advertisements
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Scribal complaints: Early medieval English copyists and their colophons « Dutch Anglo-Saxonist
Tagged with: anglo-saxon, complain, english, historic, historical, history, manuscript, medieval, monk, scribe, writing
Posted in History, Writing
Posted in History, Writing
Weekly Photo Challenge: Quest – Jedi by Knight
From Skellig Michael. Of all the things and places I saw in Ireland, Skellig Michael was my most important quest. You can read more about it this post I wrote last year, but basically I overcame so… Source: Weekly Photo…
Bede’s World reborn
The Venerable Bede was an English monk who spent almost his whole life at the dual monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. He wrote about the evolution of early Eng… Source: Bede’s World reborn
Tagged with: anglo-saxon, bede, britain, england, english, historical, history, jarrow, monk
Posted in History
Posted in History
The Anglo-Saxon Monk: Blog – The Anglo-Saxon Monk
The Anglo-Saxon Monk lingers over the laundry duties of a medieval priory and discovers more than just soap and wat er Source: The Anglo-Saxon Monk: Blog – The Anglo-Saxon Monk
