Elaine Treharne
etreharne.bsky.social
Elaine Treharne
@etreharne.bsky.social

Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever. .. more

Elaine M. Treharne FSA FRHistS FEA FLSW was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, in 1964. She is a Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English, Courtesy Professor of German Studies and of Comparative Literature, and a Bass Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. She was at the University of Leicester for eighteen years as a lecturer, then professor, head of department, and dean, before emigrating to the USA. She is a Welsh medievalist, focusing on Manuscript Studies, Early English literature, and the History of Text Technologies, particularly of the handmade book. She led Stanford University's online courses on manuscript study entitled Digging Deeper. She is a qualified archivist, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Fellow of the English Association, for whom she was also the first woman chair and President from 2000 to 2005. Treharne was made a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in April 2020. She is the President of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (2022–2025). .. more

History 46%
Philosophy 26%

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The definition of “asking for a friend”! Letter (27.x45) to C. T. Onions, Fellow Librarian at Magdalen College.

Osney Island on an evening when dark corners seemed even darker.

Jam-packed at the Weston for the last day of the Treasures Exhibition (lovely decoration on this I in the Gutenberg Bible)

Scribal joy! (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ch. Oxon 13, c. 1220)
Hey, #medievalsky - I just launched Compilatio ( oldbooks.humspace.ucla.edu/index.html ), a quick-and-dirty site that assembles completely digitized #medieval #manuscripts (mostly from UK repositories) in one convenient location. Check it out, and do let me know what you think.
Compilatio - Medieval Manuscripts
oldbooks.humspace.ucla.edu

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Oh, please do! Thank you. I am gathering as much as possible.

I owe you pdfs! Sending now.

“…For years, Neil, so many very gifted scholars have benefited and been enriched by the excellence of the training you gave them; and their best tribute will be to pass on their quality to others…”

[It’s such a moving letter. Thank a scholar whose work you like. It’ll make their world better.]

“Though arduous, exacting, rigorous & inevitably faceless work, its constant & permanent use to others more than compensates for the so-called fame which often comes to those works which hit the headlines but soon sink without trace. The true scholar, like yourself, presses on regardless.” /3

This is what one historian said to him in 1976: “‘Over the years, Neil, you have produced work of permanent value to British scholarship; work which generations of scholars as yet unborn will be using. There is deep satisfaction in that.” /2

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

I’m writing a Biography of Neil R. Ker and his foundational rôle in British Manuscript Studies. The enormous correspondence to him is touching testimony to his astonishing vision & generosity. Time and again, scholars—senior & early career alike—write to seek his knowledge, which he freely gave. /1

This is the very short piece: www.academia.edu/143093131/Tr...
Treharne Archiv theorie praxis1 2024 Internet
Treharne Archiv theorie praxis1 2024 Internet
www.academia.edu

Article in this coming out maybe next year: fragility of digital infrastructure. Did a short piece for “Archiv” last year.
JOB! Lecturer in early medieval history at my lovely once and future department! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...
Lecturer in Early Medieval History | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk

A notable survivor: St Michael’s Anglo-Saxon tower, Oxford.

Imagine a place that values Humanities so much it builds this for the future of the disciplines. And it’s already busy at 9.30am on a Thursday. (Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities @ox.ac.uk)
More on the princely burials from the Sizewell C site in Suffolk. This is a really lovely BBC news article, you can almost feel the archaeologists glee
Sizewell princely cemetery reveals more Anglo-Saxon secrets
www.bbc.co.uk

Reposted by Elaine Treharne

Saint Barbara reading, in richly detailed interior, with window view of her tower; oil on oak panel 1438, by Robert Campin, Flemish artist, died in 1444; an innovator in oil painting, he created subtleties of light & shade, textures & surface reflections, with intense realism.
Museo del Prado

Aberystwyth castle and war memorial 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.

We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Apparently, all the index card information is incorporated now on mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about
mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Munby Fellowship in Bibliography based @theul.bsky.social in Cambridge - closes on 1 February, so still time to apply.
Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2026 - 2027 at University of Cambridge
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2026 - 2027 opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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One of my favourite monastic sites.

It does! Got to be a horse, though? Someone’ll know.

Oxford, Christ Church Cathedral, home to St Frideswide. Spectacular and intimate simultaneously.

The oldest coffee shop, etc., etc., in Oxford.

Same. I wonder if it’s editable, like its more reputable exemplar?