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Aug 31 2012 | Posted In: Blog post
Morongo Hotel and Spa, Cabazon, CA (actually in the desert)
Aug 17 2012 | Posted In: Blog post
As a family (husband, two children, two dogs, one cat), we very recently drove across America, so that I could take up my new post as Professor of English at Stanford University, south of San Francisco. Our 2,600 mile journey along the I-10 and up the I-5 from Tallahassee, Florida to Stanford took...
Jul 18 2012 | Posted In: Blog post
Joseph Mendham, a nineteenth-century Anglican writer, 'controversialist' and book-collector, has been in the news today, as the subject, happily for him, of controversy. It was announced that the UK's Law Society, which owns his extant collection of books and manuscripts, has decided to sell off...
Jul 17 2012 | Posted In: Blog post
A book like Cambridge, Trinity College, R. 17. 1, unlike the St Cuthbert Gospel, recently acquired for the nation by the British Library (http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2012/05/the-st-cuthbert-gospel-the-story-of-a-book.html) could hardly claim to be hand-held technology....
Apr 5 2012 | Posted In: Blog post
Today, in the midst of a thunderous downpour, we examined Florida State University's Dodd Hall as an example of text: Built in the late 1920s, this 'gothic collegiate' building now houses Classics, Religion and Philosophy, together with the FSU Heritage Museum. Inscribed over the doorway in Gothic...

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