Evellum

About

Evellum

Evellum was developed in Melbourne thirty years ago by Bernard J. Muir as an online program for the teaching of codicology and paleography. The technical group responsible for Ductus included Graeme Smith (†) and Nick Kennedy. Many universities around the world currently hold or have held site licences – all staff and students of those institutions have access to Ductus for the duration of their licence. In addition to this initiative, Muir has edited the three surviving collections of the earliest Christian English poetry created before the year 1000 – The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry, The Cædmon Manuscript (MS Junius 11) and most recently, The Vercelli Codex. A new edition of the invaluable Peterborough Chronicle (in two volumes) has also been produced and is published by Anthem Press UK. Evellum also created a series of three documentary-length videos focusing on various aspects of manuscript production in medieval monasteries.

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Bernard J. Muir

Bernard J Muir [BA, MA, MSL, PhD] trained in Toronto at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies under Leonard Boyle, later the Prefect of the Vatican Library in Rome. He was appointed to the University of Melbourne in 1981 and taught Early English Language and Literature and also Latin Paleography and Codicology. He has taught an advanced subject on The Art of the Medieval Book since 2011. He has received numerous [ARC] federal research grants and many more from The University of Melbourne itself.

Earlier Publications

  1. Muir, B.J., and A.J. Turner, eds. The Lives of Saints Oda, Oswald and Dunstan by Eadmer of Canterbury. Oxford Medieval Latin Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  2. Muir, B.J., ed. Reading Texts and Images: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage in Honour of Margaret M. Manion. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002.
  3. Muir, B.J., and A.J. Turner, eds. The Life of St Wilfrid by Eadmer. A new edition of the 12th-century biography, with facing-page translation, commentary, and historical introduction. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1998.
  4. Muir, B.J., and M.M. Manion, eds. The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1998; reprinted 2007.
  5. Muir, B.J., and A.J. Turner, eds. The Life of St Wilfrid by Eadmer, with colour facsimile of Ballarat Gallery of Fine Arts, Crouch MS 10. CD-ROM. Melbourne: Evellum, 1998; 2nd ed. 2006.
  6. Muir, B.J., and M.M. Manion, eds. Medieval Texts and Images: Studies of Manuscripts from the Middle Ages. London and Sydney: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1991; revised and reprinted 1992, 1993.
  7. Muir, B.J., ed. Leoð: Six Old English Poems. New York and London: Gordon and Breach and Harwood Academic Publishing, 1989.
  8. Muir, B.J., ed. A Pre-Conquest English Prayerbook. The Henry Bradshaw Society, vol. 103. Suffolk, 1988.

Steven Hampton

Steven Hampton originally completed a BSc and embarked on an international career in software development, whilst always maintaining a keen interest in literature and history, especially of the Middle Ages. After 14 years, he returned to academic life at the University of Melbourne, where he completed a BA and honours year in medieval history and literature, followed some years later by a PhD in European Literature. These days he's working again in software development, happy to combine his professional work with his academic interests whenever possible.

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