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Celtic Studies Resources from a Digital Medievalist

The Panjab Digital Library

| May 4, 2010

Via Peter Scott’s Library Blog, I learned about the Panjab Digital Library, an open, free, public digitization project. You can see an online exhibit of some of their very high quality manuscript digitization. The PDL digitizes books and photographs as well as manuscripts, but you can see the manuscripts that are currently available here.The Panjab [...]

Smart Essay about Tolkien’s Monster and the Critics

| May 2, 2010

Michael Drout, he of the almost completed second edition of Beowulf and the Critics, has a short piece on a LOTR forum on “”Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”: The Brilliant Essay that Broke Beowulf Studies.” The essay is, not surprisingly, smart, and well-worth reading. It’s a good background and introduction to Tolkien’s essay, and [...]