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Celtic Studies Resources from a Digital Medievalist

New Texts Added to the Corpus of Middle English

Lisa L. Spangenberg | February 27, 2006

The University of Michigan’s Corpus of Middle English Texts is one of the most useful text depositories on the Internet. It’s right up there with CELT, in my book. And it’s now even better; they’ve added another 85 texts to the 65 that were already up there. Now, these texts are all searchable, and many [...]

Medievalist Bloggers at Kalamazoo

Lisa L. Spangenberg | February 24, 2006

Elizabeth Carnel (AKA Lisa), one of the prime movers behind the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, and Dr. Shana Worthen, also known as Owlfish (and keeper of the Medievalist Weblogs List), organized a panel on medievalist bloggers at this year’s Congress. Thanks to Elizabeth’s kind efforts, I was able to file the [...]

Anglo-Saxon Painted Angel Gabriel

Lisa L. Spangenberg | February 23, 2006

The Guardian reported that builders, accompanied by guardian archaeologists, removed part of the floor in the nave of Lichfield Cathedral and discovered an exquisitely carved limestone angel. The angel was found in three pieces, and is missing part of his robe.
The discovery of this early ninth century sculpture is exciting, not only because it’s [...]