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A conditioned scribe: The use of multiple interlinear glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels

What happens when early medieval glossators provide multiple translations for one and the same Latin word and what can this tell us about language history?

Medieval Photoshop

Manipulating and enhancing images may seem something that is particular to the current digital age. The Kattendijke Chronicle, a late fifteenth-century manuscript from the Low Countries, contains fascinating examples of analogue image editing.

Archaeology

Een speurtocht naar metaalvondsten: het levenswerk van Herman Zomerdijk in Kennemerland

Duizenden metaalvondsten die door detectorist wijlen Herman Zomerdijk zijn gedaan in de regio Kennemerland schetsen een uniek beeld van Noord-Holland door de eeuwen heen.

And then Christ turned the children into pigs: A curious miracle in late medieval England

A curious miracle has a young Christ turn Jewish children into pigs. The scene was particularly popular in late medieval England and has a problematic connection to medieval antisemitism.

Crewing the Galleys to Turkey: Forced Labour in the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries

In 1464, twenty-five men were sentenced to penal labour on the galleys by the reeve of the bailiwick (meierij) of ’s-Hertogenbosch in Brabant. Who were these men and how did they meet this fate?

Leiden's medieval manuscripts online: An update

Erik-Jan Dros, project officer on the ARMA (Art of Reading in the Middle Ages) project, takes us through the developments in the digitisation of the medieval manuscripts in Leiden University Library's collection which took place during 2021.