Latin Palaeography for Medieval and Early Modern European History

This is a hands-on training course in reading and transcribing the actual handwriting found in European manuscripts and documents from roughly 500 to 1600, so that historians can work with primary sources in their original form rather than relying on edited transcriptions. You'll work through successive script families, Roman, Insular, Caroline, Gothic textualis and cursive, humanistic, learning their abbreviation systems and decoding real manuscript samples, alongside codicology and illumination. It's a methodological foundation for anyone doing medieval or early modern archival research, where the ability to actually read the source often determines what questions you can ask.