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For this assignment, we visited Carleton’s Special Collections to research and write a descriptive bibliography of one of Carleton’s rare or old texts. The text that I chose to investigate was a pocket-sized psalter published in 1600, which had several …
For this assignment, we did research in the Carleton Archives to produce an edition showing the textual history of a Carleton document. This was my favorite assignment of the term since it felt like the greatest chance for truly independent …
For this exercise, we used the digital tool Twine to remediate a folktale into a digital choose-your-own-adventure form. I chose a Malagasy tale called “Koera le perroquet” (Koera the Parrot), which is a story I’ve also remediated in other ways. …
For this exercise we used goose feathers and Xacto knives to make our own usable quills, based on this tutorial from The British Library. It was difficult to fashion the quill exactly how I wanted it, and the end result …
For this exercise we were tasked with studying some of the conventions of medieval handwriting and transcription. From there, we tried our hand at transcribing short medieval texts with the University of Nottingham’s interactive palaeography exercises. While I generally found …
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For this exercise, we were asked to write a descriptive bibliography of a book we own: a short text that analyzed the book’s physical characteristics to draw conclusions about its intended use, status, and history. For the assignment, I chose …
