You’ve no doubt heard of the slow food fad, and we all know what Nietzsche said about philology as a kind of slow reading, but reading this slowly? Read about what goes in to turning the pages of manuscripts from the Met Museum’s Pen and Parchment blog.
Doctoral work can have a blinders-effect wherein the scholar, so intent on the goal, loses focus once the dissertation is achieved. A recent BMCR reminds us that Cato the Younger wasn’t all that important, and that facts matter.
How do academics use blogs and social media, and why? Surprise, surprise: it’s now become an academic question, and a University College London lecturer wants to hear from you.