A historian of my acquaintance posted the following picture to Facebook to illustrate why he became a medievalist:
Quite a laudable reason!
Then I realized that I too could illustrate my medievalist roots. And no, it has nothing to do with deeds of arms:
Yes, Richard III's signature!
I attribute my medievalism not to being something of a Ricardian as a teenager -- though I was -- but to the script which he used to sign his name (in a better exemplar than any I found on the web).
I wanted to read and write that script.
Little did I know I would someday be sitting in the Bodleian with a manuscript from the 5th century -- but I have.
I wanted to read and write that script.
Little did I know I would someday be sitting in the Bodleian with a manuscript from the 5th century -- but I have.
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