David Rundle
What you will find here are comments on intellectual and cultural matters relating mainly to the Renaissance, but certainly not confined to that. It grows out of my own scholarly interests which do not fit easily into current academic boundaries: I am a medievalist who also works in the sixteenth century, an historian of Europe who also works on the part of the shared civilisation that lies north of the English Channel. At the same time, I am sometimes an historian of political thought, sometimes an historian of the book, and sometimes an old-fashioned palaeographer.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Manuscripts Christ Church Oxford Academic Practices Humanism Humfrey duke of Gloucester Poggio Bracciolini Offbeat observations fragments A. C. de la Mare John Tiptoft earl of Worcester Renaissance Studies Houghton Library Leonardo Bruni Exhibitions Bartolomeo Sanvito Cristina Neagu Richard Sharpe British History Obituaries Libraries
A good year from Humfrey, duke of Gloucester
9 November 2023
It is time to revise my definitive list of manuscripts once owned by Humfrey, duke of Gloucester. I once wrote that manuscripts from the outsize book collection of the prince who loved...
7 July 2023
Stained Glass Window to St Dunstan, Thomas More and Lanfranc, St Dunstan’s Church, Canterbury (1909) I had the honour to give the 2023 Annual Thomas More Lecture at St Dunstan’s...
#Receptiogate and gate-keeping
23 January 2023
As I said in my previous post, the first topic I want to consider in reflecting on the so-called Receptio affair is what it tells us about the limits of the scholarly community. We...
On the Receptio-Rossi Affair: a preface to some reflections
23 January 2023
After the jollities, the hangover. Over the festive break, a corner of social media was abuzz with a tale of plagiarism, questionable business ethics and sloppy scholarly practices....