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Textual Parallels: Answering Jonathan
I’m getting back to the point that Jonathan raised on the post below. I keep exploring the issue of how to look at and construct parallels from a number of angles and as I consider a new project… more →
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11th Century Saxon quiver and bracer
leatherworkingreverend wrote 3 weeks ago: This was a commission to make a set of 11th century Saxon arrows and matching archery equipment. The … more →
Destructive Testing Black Dye
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leatherworkingreverend wrote 1 month ago: In the store book of Charterhouse School, Godlaming is an entry under the year 1618: mending of pott … more →
Leatherwork at the MoL
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leatherworkingreverend wrote 2 months ago: These photos are from our visit to the Museum of London in 2006. The light levels in the museum can … more →
Painted finishes
leatherworkingreverend wrote 2 months ago: This is a topic I don’t think anyone’s covered particularly well, so I’m going to … more →
Snot Saxon :-(
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dshelleyic wrote 2 months ago: Ahhh well the quest continues….the very helpful people at the UK Finds Database confirmed that … more →
Anglo Scandanavian period knife scabbard, Parliament Street, York
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leatherworkingreverend wrote 4 months ago: I wasn’t going to post another knife scabard just yet, but Hugh’s comment sort of prompt … more →
Rus Knife - 9th Century
leatherworkingreverend wrote 5 months ago: At one event or other, Glenda and I were struggling with the usual Anglo Saxon sock problem – … more →
Feeding and Caring for your Leather Vessel
leatherworkingreverend wrote 5 months ago: With care and occasional cleaning, your leather vessel should provide at least twenty years of good … more →
Textual Parallels: Answering Jonathan
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derekolsen wrote 6 months ago: I’m getting back to the point that Jonathan raised on the post below. I keep exploring the iss … more →
Old Latin vs. Vulgate: Helpful Hint
derekolsen wrote 9 months ago: If you ever have occasion to work with a Latin Gospel-book (or other gospel-containing text) and won … more →
Genesis and Responsories: A Concise Summary
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derekolsen wrote 11 months ago: In five previous posts, I have been investigating the relationship between responsories and the cont … more →
Genesis and Responsories, Cont.: Lent 3
derekolsen wrote 11 months ago: Continuing along with early medieval monastic responsories sung alongside the continuous reading of … more →
Genesis and Responsories, Cont.: And They're Back...
derekolsen wrote 11 months ago: After a hiatus for the First Sunday in Lent, the responsories on Genesis return with the Second Sund … more →
Genesis and Responsories, Cont.: A Pause for Quadragesima
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derekolsen wrote 11 months ago: Continuing yet again with our look at how the Genesis readings are contextualized and framed by the … more →
What Every Medievalist Should Bookmark: Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
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derekolsen wrote 11 months ago: Playing off the popular What Every Medievalist Should Know series, I’ve been thinking about so … more →
More Genesis and Responsories: Quinquigesima
derekolsen wrote 11 months ago: Continuing with the theme and texts from the last post, I’m still looking at the responsories … more →
Genesis and the Responsories
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derekolsen wrote 11 months ago: No posts in way too long—time for some substance. My central premise here is that Scripture in … more →
Missal Comparison: Nativity of the BVM
derekolsen wrote 1 year ago: As today is the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, I checked out the propers for the feast … more →
Missal Comparison: 15th Sunday after Pentecost
derekolsen wrote 1 year ago: Out of curiosity, I checked out this week’s propers as presented in five sources: The Leofric … more →
