Birds in the Wren

The Caladrius, a mythical bird, heals a sick king. From Trin. Ms. R.14.9

Bird Iconography in a 13th Century English Bestiary

Here's my latest blog post over at the Trinity College Library blog. The text was originally written for an exhibition my colleague and I put together over two years ago, entitled "Birds in the Wren" (ha ha), looking at bird iconography, symbolism and representation from medieval manuscripts to Darwin's finches, to Owl in Winnie the Pooh.

Words and 'wordless'

The folio from B.14.52 containing the word “wordless” as quoted in the Oxford English Dictionary. It is located at the bottom of the right hand page.

I just wanted to share a blog post I wrote for work. I'm pretty pleased with it.

View it here.

LOL My Thesis

My fellow academics should appreciate this Tumblr I've been enjoying today:

LOL My Thesis

Academics submit one-sentence summaries of their theses and dissertations - the more trivial the more hilarious. Some of my favourites are:

Fake science sounds an awful lot like real science, except it’s fake.

Archaeology, University of Cambridge
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Rocks that are next to each other in Massachusetts now were also next to each other 400 million years ago.

Geology, Amherst College

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14th and 19th century Londoners reacted differently to disease because of the shift in dominant cultural paradigms - or, you know, any number of other things.

Religious Studies, Elon University

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Poetry is, and should be, like noodles.

Comparative Literature, Columbia College Chicago

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Fox News is lying to us with graphs.

Graphic Design, University College Falmouth

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So, colonialism.

History, Wesleyan University