Dr David Rundle
@drdavidrundle
Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
'Drought and heatwave - working together' Yes, I suppose they are, the nefarious so-and-sos.
Really enjoyed the exhibition on that most gifted of Elizabethan poets, Christopher Marlowe, as a son of Canterbury at the city's Beaney Museum. Congratulations to @memsunikent.bsky.social's @loughnrv.bsky.social and the team on a stimulating show.
I wonder from where the author got the dodgy Latin - 'lectio bene' does not translate as 'good reading'. Oh:
A great time @cburycathedral.bsky.social with the Graffiti Research Project hearing about their exciting work. Thanks to Miranda, Lucinda, Clare, Andrew and David, and best of luck to all the team for your important work.
Last week in Santiago de Compostela there was a stimulating conference on the Marques de Santillana. While there, I made a point of passing as often as possible the Cathedral's early modern Puerta Santa: I fell for its reuse of the prophets from the late 12th-century choir (destroyed in 1603).
Spent the weekend finishing my paper for this conference in Santiago this week. It has led me to revisit my work on the 'Europolitan' nature of Italian Renaissance humanism and it is stimulating to think afresh. Very much looking forward to hearing the other papers and being inspired by them.
Steely skies and a breezy day but I know a warm welcome awaits inside as I come for some #fragment fun.
In my hand and soon to be in yours - the latest issue of @mediumaevum.bsky.social, in which you can travel from Portugal to Burgundy (via Florence or London) and from the seventh to the fifteenth century +
I'm on a roll with @magdalenoxford.bsky.social manuscripts. In the last few weeks, identified one book of hours as probably made for the future Suxtus IV, and in another ms an unnoticed copy of Richard Swineshead's Calculationes. Now onto this beauty, the last one needing a finalised description.
After the @mediumaevum.bsky.social AGM, it is a delight to hear @profhelenfulton.bsky.social give the Society's Annual Lecture on political poetry, the Welsh Marches and the Wars of the Roses.
Wonderful to hear Jonathan Arnold, Michael Ramsey Professor of Theology @kent.ac.uk, giving his @memsunikent.bsky.social seminar on a conjunction of subjects where he is an undoubted world expert: John Colet and music.
To Winchester for @komldsp.bsky.social exploration of cathedral and college.
To @cburycathedral.bsky.social for the last @memsunikent.bsky.social Palaeography session for the term and a delight to see the Cathedral Gate once more unwrapped, complete with its Renaissance decoration.
Yes, this does look odd. Why *is* that ticket machine pretending to be a piece of luggage?
Thank you to Special Collections @kent.ac.uk for hosting @memsunikent.bsky.social MA students and showing such exciting items held in the library. You could tell how excited people were!
First London Palaeography Seminar of 2026 coming up! Eyal Poleg, no less, speaking on 'The Science of Erasures' - Tuesday 3rd February, 5:30pm Senate House and online. To learn more and to register: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
He is probably best known to you as the author of Policraticus, that deathless classic of the C12 Renaissance:
I walked over to OUP - or perhaps I should say I went on a cranky crawl.
I was so disappointed not to have known of the NYE event at Margate's Turner Gallery, until my wife explained it was not that type of Latin Party.