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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

St Anne Bileyn? And alongside John Fisher...

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On Magdalene Wake, does the card index to William's correspondence (in the Upper Library) help?

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Of course, someone can learn to write at any age. But the grandmother would have been 50+ at this stage, and this does look like a child's practice. I note we know little about the future archbishop's siblings. Thank YOU for all you did to make yesterday such a success.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I would hazard neither. I said yesterday that gender rarely defines script. But age can. This is by someone learning to write. I suspect that this is an elder sister to the future archbishop. We know his siblings did not live to adulthood, and so it could have passed to him after her premature death

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How kind of you to say so, though I was sorry not to have chance to speak to you in person!

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Does this imply there is going to a sequel, Wercat?

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not looking too shabby this morning.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They will have more fun with my replacement, Han Tame! They are great and will enthuse...

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

While on Guernsey this last weekend, I went on a little pilgrimage to see the wall-paintings in the tiny chapel of St Apolline.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh, a must buy. Congratulations. I realise that writing it must have been a pfaff.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So you do not reject it out of hand: good. It is always difficult when working with a limited dataset of graphs but that majuscule would in some scripts be a Q.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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

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Highlights | Lost Manuscripts

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A radical reinterpretation: you are meeting the Queen

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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...

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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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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Does your university have launchers?

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am sure that textura praescissa, showoff that it is, gets all the fun.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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.

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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

While it is true that I am no lumberjack, I am OK and I work all day.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Somebody's not a lumberjack and he's not OK.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If Bram Stoker was the Penguin, who was Batman? Henry James?

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You can have good fun with that! And if you want me to look over a draft, do send it my way.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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...

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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!

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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.

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Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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!

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 23/08/2026

Researchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’

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Manuscript fragments hiding in plain sight shed light on medieval Guernsey’s literary life

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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...

theguardian.com

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’

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Some great ligatures. Who designed it?

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In the Dark Ages*, they used technology to kill people more efficiently. *By Dark Ages is commonly meant the first half of the twentieth century.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

You are talking of 283, which is undeniably s. xv2/4. Both images @stewartbrookes.bsky.social has provided are of 284 which I see catalogue says is s. xi ex. With @benpohl.bsky.social in thinking it (284 for avoidance of doubt!) falls into the next century.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Except Vitruvius did not much circulate in the high Middle Ages.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

'Drought and heatwave - working together' Yes, I suppose they are, the nefarious so-and-sos.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Can't be that but could be Idelhoode - the second letter does not look like a d (which is usually formed double-bowled, as near end) but that may be because it is worn or script was affected by cramped space. May also be 'too' in penultimate line. Let textual context decide for you!

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

+ Of course, that requires being clear of the definition of an author (long after their death was declared). Equally obviously, this does relate to wilful plagiarism, where the perpetrator knows the rules but consciously breaks them. There, any attempt at justification will be dishonest.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

+ A similar attitude may hold for the hive brain of the internet and voracious AI. Plagiarism is, literally, literary kidnapping but in that metaphor the author is parent. What happens to that in a post-copyright world? The author's right to be named has to be protected, amid these wider changes. +

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