Seb Dows-Miller

DPhil Medievalist @hilda_beastoxf @MedFrenchOx | Co-organiser @TeachingCodex | Keeper of beasts @MertonBeasts | Lecturer @MertonCollege | Tweets my own

[Seb Dows-Miller @DowsMillerSeb]

#PhDone, or as we say in Oxford, #DonePhil

[The TLS @TheTLS]

Sebastian Dows-Miller (@DowsMillerSeb) on medieval comedies translated for a modern audience
https://t.co/0BM6rmPDTL

[Digital Medievalist @digitalmedieval]

Organized by Hannah Bush @cesare_blanc, participants include: Elisa Cugliana @elicugliana, Sebastian Dows-Miller @DowsMillerSeb, Sebastian Gensicke @hsgensicke, Philipp Schneider @cliotex, Suzette van Haaren @suzettevhaaren, and Julia Pelosi-Thorpe @jpelosithorpe.
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[Seb Dows-Miller @DowsMillerSeb]

I’ve been working on the contents of this manuscript for three years and I’m seeing it for the first time in the flesh today. Suffice to say I’m quite excited

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'Murray and Boyd open up the Ovide to a new generation of readers.'

Sebastian Dows-Miller (@DowsMillerSeb) on a translation of an influential French translation https://t.co/u6jOCgU2EY

[Seb Dows-Miller @DowsMillerSeb]

Just had the realisation that the symbol ‘ß’ started life as a ligature between long ‘ſ’ and rounded ‘s’

I’m sure this is basic knowledge for Germanists but as a Gallicist it’s damn cool

📷: BnF D2-1853, p. 39

[Seb Dows-Miller @DowsMillerSeb]

I’m back with my people!

And by people of course I mean manuscripts, with apologies to anyone else at the @britishlibrary today 📚

[Seb Dows-Miller @DowsMillerSeb]

Really excited to be talking about tangled scribes and tangled methods in this session later today, followed by a round table on podcasting with the @digitalmedieval PG committee. Busy day! #IMC2023

[Digital Medievalist @digitalmedieval]

Join us for #IMC2023 #s444 on Monday 3 July 2023, 19.00-20.00: Podcasts, Blogs, and Video Essays: Digital Medieval Studies for the Masses? - A Round Table Discussion. Sponsored by #CodingCodices #DigitalMedievalist

https://t.co/amb4BLlHIh

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'Compared to their descendants, it was believed, medieval Britons held stronger values and traditions, had a greater appreciation of artistic style and, perhaps most importantly, simply had more fun.' (@DowsMillerSeb)

https://t.co/t3PqJBWrqZ

[Seb Dows-Miller @DowsMillerSeb]

It’s nearly that time again!

@amyllthompson
#Eurovision

[Digital Medievalist @digitalmedieval]

@SegoAG Also, Friday at 1.30pm, @DowsMillerSeb is presenting "A New Paleography? The Argument for a Macro-Level, Quantitative Approach to Scribal Hands"
#kzoo2023 #s241

[Seb Dows-Miller @DowsMillerSeb]

Vivat Rex Carolus!

#Coronation

[Seb Dows-Miller @DowsMillerSeb]

@mphilpott7iclo1 @keblelib @Ox_Medieval_Soc The other more solid marks above and sometimes below the letters are indicators of abbreviation

[Seb Dows-Miller @DowsMillerSeb]

@mphilpott7iclo1 @keblelib @Ox_Medieval_Soc Yep! ‘Hairstroke’ marks to help distinguish i’s from minims used to form m’s, n’s etc., and the origins of the dot we now have on the i!

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

“When something is a ritual, for reasons we may struggle to articulate, it simply matters that it is done” — @DrFrancisYoung https://t.co/ND5mMcpVas

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

It's possible the Gospels were used at the earliest consecrations of English kings, in the kingdom of Kent in the early 7th century. The King has requested their presence at the Coronation, tying the ceremony to the most ancient origins of English Christianity

[Seb Dows-Miller @DowsMillerSeb]

@MertonCollege gardens looking stunning as usual, even on an otherwise grey day