The Peripheral Manuscripts Project
Book Lab Co-Director Elizabeth Hebbard is the Primary Principal Investigator for the Peripheral Manuscripts Project and works alongside Co-PI Michelle Dalmau, one of the members of our Board of Directors.
The Peripheral Manuscripts Project is a four-year project (2020-2024), hosted at Indiana University Bloomington, to digitize and describe 74 codices and 617 medieval manuscript fragments from twenty-two primarily non-R1 Midwestern institutions. All item descriptions and high-resolution, IIIF-compliant images will be published in an open-access IU LIbraries Digital Collection Services repository in late 2024.
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NEH Humanities Initiative: Creating an IU Book Studies Minor
This new curricular initiative was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in January 2024 and will run from March 2024 to March 2027.
Learn moreThe Bayeux Tapestry from Scratch
The Bayeux Tapestry from Scratch (BTFS) project is a three-year lecture and workshop series that will begin in 2025. This project has been generously supported by an Indiana University Public Arts & Humanities Project Grant and a Medieval Academy of America Centennial Project Grant
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AstroLABe 2024
On April 8, 2024, Bloomington experienced a total solar eclipse. In anticipation of this exciting event, a team of humanities scholars at IU came together to organize eclipse-related activities around the astrolabe, a medieval tool used for observing the stars and making various astrological, geometric, and chronological calculations. We have shared this medieval technology at the April and October 2024 ScienceFest events at IU.
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