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‘Red Riding Hood’ and the wolf: Marginal drawings in a collection of Cicero’s works

Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, PER F 25, a fifteenth-century collection of works by Cicero, contains a number of interesting marginal drawings, but how, if at all, do they relate to its text?

Hogwarts in the Middle Ages: Piggy Place Names in Early Medieval England

What are the medieval origins of Harry Potter's Hogwarts and how do place names reveal the importance of pigs in medieval culture?

Medieval Copying Gone Wrong? The Importance of Scribal Interference

How did medieval scribes copy manuscripts and what can manuscript copies tell us about language development? Amos van Baalen introduces his NWO-funded PhD project.

Art History

Thou shalt not pass. Gender segregation in medieval churches

A dark line on the floor of Durham Cathedral prevented half of the medieval population from crossing it. What was it doing there?

Double-voiced medievalism? The Middle Ages in the Modern World

Why do we keep going back to the Middle Ages? Why do we create both idealised and grotesque representations of the medieval past in popular culture?

Mind the Reader? Intention and Reception in the Early Age of Print, 1450-1600

In the 15th century the novel medium of print and the vernacular languages spoken across Europe became a powerful combination. Printers increasingly published in the vernacular, tapping into new markets. Who read in the vernacular, why, and how?