Showing posts with label Stemma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stemma. Show all posts
2019-01-05

All the Isidorian Bibles Online

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A very special set of medieval bibles is complete at last, thanks to the recent digitization of the Foigny Bible in the French National Lib...
2018-11-05

Mind's Eye Has Been Published

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When were family-tree diagrams invented? My new book, Mind's Eye: How One Ancient Latin Invented Our Way to Visualize Stories , uncover...
2016-12-20

Time Trials

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Regular readers of this blog will know that a big topic hereabouts is the origin of timelines generally, and in particular how humans got th...
2016-10-23

Chart Before Jerome

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Before Jerome of Stridon produced his revised Latin version of the Christian Bible in about 400 CE, the version that remains in use today, a...
2016-10-01

Secret of Oldest Infographic Revealed: A Grid

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Things have been quiet on this blog and my Twitter stream because I have been working on a major project: a complete reconstruction of the ...
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2016-07-08

What's It About?

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I get asked: what's your book's title, and what's it about? The working title is: Expositor. The project investigates the worl...
2016-05-24

Old and New

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A bit of fun this week, comparing diagrams old and new in the spirit of plus ca change ... 1 Here is Cassiodorus (6th century) using a de...
2016-05-15

Medieval Diagram Commentary Rediscovered

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Rediscovering a lost medieval work is the dream of many historians. It has come true for me in the last few weeks as a 6,000-word medieval c...
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2016-04-30

Greatest Brain Hack of All Time

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Human beings are mostly quite good at remembering lots of faces. We automatically classify faces by shape and complexion. We mentally associ...
2016-04-02

Medieval scribes used HTML tags

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When a video-rich website fails to load to your mobile because you drove out of cell range or your data plan maxed out, you're a victim ...
2015-12-05

Stemmata in Incunables

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What I have been looking at in recent weeks is how early printers coped with the idea of a stemma without drawing a tree. The period I am l...
2015-10-10

Rome and Qing Fuse in a 1704 Diagram

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Just after 1700 CE, Chinese experts accepted an extraordinary commission: to devise a poster-sized infographic to depict the ancestry of Jes...
2014-12-06

Enemies of Hugh Capet

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One of the difficulties of publishing a scholarly book is doubtless the fact that the time-span between research and hitting the market can ...
2014-05-04

Translating Nonsense

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How does one translate nonsense that has arisen when scribes fall into a doze and begin to write drivel? There is a celebrated passage in th...
2013-11-05

Transcript in France

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A transcription of the Great Stemma text from the Saint-Sever Beatus has appeared in France, along with a detailed introduction to the enti...
2013-10-21

Sicut Lucas

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Something I have just noticed is that the art historian Marcia Growden translated into English in 1976 the fulcrum passage of both the Liber...