Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, information access, and more
Did you know that images of the papyrus of the Gospel of Peter are online? Well, they are, here. Monochrome, of course (O ye uncircumcised!), but far better than nothing. A photographic archive of other documentary papyri in the Cairo museum are here (courtesy of the Andrew Mellon foundation which is funding all sorts of […]
It is always good to have a clear idea of how a book comes into our hands. In 1562 Mattias Flacius, who was writing a church history in the Lutheran interest, happened upon a handwritten medieval book at Minden in Germany, which contained an ancient text previously unknown. The work was De errore profanum religionem (On […]
“No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en: In brief, sir, study what you most affect” – Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew.” Welcome to my blog, which at this instant has posts containing words (these are dynamic figures). I’m interested in the ancient world, and the early Christians within it; in the ancient texts […]
Oxford was lovely in the summer sunshine as I drove across Folly Bridge and down to Merton, my old college, where I stayed in preference to the rather expensive accomodation at other colleges laid on by the organisers. After getting my room, I went across to the Examination Schools, a magnificent gothic building where the […]