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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · Jul 19

Claudia nos explica cómo ha ido la experiencia en nuestro blog #PeopleAndWriting

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IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social · Jun 6

There are still a few places left at our Carolingian Calligraphy workshop!
23-24 June
7 Owengate, Durham
FREE (please note that you will need to provide your own materials - click the link for a list of what you'll need.)
Find out more and book your place: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · May 15

🧵Is the piece of parchment too small?
No problem – I’ll just stitch on another one to match!

#Materiality #MssStudies

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · May 12

🖋️ Who wrote the past when names were left out?
Discover how anonymous scripts can still speak volumes in this thought-provoking guest post by @nereavsk.bsky.social on People and Writing.
🔍 #Palaeography #MedievalStudies #Manuscripts
👉 peopleandwriting.usal.es/en/guest-pos...

Guest post: Nerea Fernández, “Anonymous scripts" - People and Writing

El proyecto People and Writing, Universidad de Salamanca, explora al ciudadano a través de la escritura en la Edad Media. ERC StG Research Project 2020-2025

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Nerea Fernández Cadenas @nereavsk.bsky.social · May 1

The documentary "L'odyssée des chiffres", on which I had the pleasure to collaborate, is now available!!
@artefr.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=njcS...

L'odyssée des chiffres (2/3) | À la conquête du monde | ARTE

YouTube video by ARTE

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · Apr 14

The Manuscript of the Week is the Book of Uí Mhaine, RIA MS D ii 1. The contents of this 14th C manuscript are described in a marginal note as ‘bolg an tsolathair’ (bag of mixed content/miscellany).
Read more & find a link to the @dias-isos.bsky.social digital copy here: www.ria.ie/collections/...

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · May 5

Thank you!

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · May 5

Thank you! 💚

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · May 5

Even fakes can be precious. They tell us not just what people wanted to believe, but when and why those beliefs mattered.

If you'd like to access these notes, I've uploaded them here zenodo.org/records/1530...

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Análisis gráfico preliminar. Documentación diplomática en visigótica de Oña (siglo XI)

Objetivo: Proporcionar una cronología aproximada para la producción del diploma de 1023, junio, 30 BNP, coll. de Bourgogne, t. 77, nº 90 (Sancho el Mayor reforma la vida monástica en San Salvador de O...

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · May 5

Which means: when the forgery was made, the monastery was right in the middle of a major cultural, liturgical and graphic transition—and the script still shows signs of resistance to change.

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · May 5

After a close comparative study of 28 Visigothic-script documents from the Oña archive, I was able to demonstrate—with solid evidence—that this charter was almost certainly produced in the late 1090s.

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · May 5

The aim: to provide an approximate production date for the charter dated 30 June 1023 (BNP, coll. de Bourgogne, vol. 77, no. 90), in which Sancho the Great reforms monastic life at San Salvador de Oña according to Cluniac custom.

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · May 5

To answer my colleague’s question, I spent the last few days analysing every document in the same archival collection, including the one that sparked the consultation.

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · May 5

So even if the document is diplomatically ‘false’, it might still tell us a great deal—particularly if we focus on its material features.

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · May 5

We’re talking about a crucial period: the transition from the Hispanic to the Roman liturgy, a shift from local to international politics, and a major script change—from Visigothic to Caroline minuscule (see the per abbr.)

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · May 5

Why does that matter? Because forging a document in 1033 is very different from doing it in, say, 1090—especially at such a pivotal moment in Iberian history. 😱

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · May 5

A few weeks ago, a colleague asked me for help dating a medieval document long considered a forgery. Yes, a forgery—but one with a precise date: the year 1033. And yet no one had ever asked: what if that date actually matches the likely time it was produced? 👇 #MssStudies

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · May 5

Do sign up for this course!! If I were in London I wouldn't miss it (if it were online, I'd be the first to sign up!)

Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · May 5

Training in early Frankish palaeography is not just for those working on this period, it will help you understand Late Roman, Carolingian, and Protogothic scripts& to approach cursive writing from later centuries too.
It’s a doorway to many centuries of Latin palaeography!
#medievalsky
#manuscripts

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · Apr 29

The framing of palaeography as a challenge to be overcome rather than a useful skill and a joyful exercise is concerning and devalues both this critical ability and of historical research work generally.

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · Apr 28

Very much looking forward to this residential workshop on The Parish #Church in #Medieval Smaland (Sweden). I've been invited to share comparative insights from my research on medieval England and Wales, including especially www.thomasway.ac.uk. Lots of interest to @chppc.bsky.social too!

Our conference room in the beautiful Teleborg Castle

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · Apr 29

📜 There is still time to apply for the remaining few spots at the Digital Medieval Studies Institute UK edition, a one-day event on digital methods for medievalists, sponsored by Digital Medievalist!

📆 July 11 2025, University of Leeds
▶️ Info and registration: tinyurl.com/yeyhact4

#medievalsky

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · Apr 29

Another personal sign — this time from the scribe of the document. Shaped like a puzzle piece! #PeopleAndWriting

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · Apr 24

¡Recién salida del horno! 🔥

Reseña del libro de Graham Barrett, Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia (711–1031), imprescindible para quienes estudian cultura escrita en la Alta Edad Media

🆓 👉 revistas.usal.es/uno/index.ph...

#ManuscriptStudies #PeopleAndWriting @erc.europa.eu

Barrett, Graham. Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia. The Written and The World, 711-1031 | Studia Historica. Historia Medieval

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · Apr 22

New issue of Early Medieval Europe Vol. 33, No. 2 (2025) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254... @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social

Early Medieval Europe: Vol 33, No 2

Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.

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Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social · Apr 24

Back from Easter break with a thought-provoking new guest post on our #PeopleAndWriting blog:

Pilar Ledesma explores how labour, writing, and orality intertwine in medieval contexts. A must-read!

👉 peopleandwriting.usal.es/en/guest-pos...

Guest post: Pilar Ledesma, “Labour, Writing, and Orality" - People and Writing

El proyecto People and Writing, Universidad de Salamanca, explora al ciudadano a través de la escritura en la Edad Media. ERC StG Research Project 2020-2025

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