🎧Lost Manuscripts: Where Are They Now?
🎧 Gone Medieval
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25m
Missing manuscripts mean melancholy medievalists, mourning materials that might make mysteries manifest.
A gap in knowledge - both of stories and artefacts - provides a frustrating block when looking into the past. But, a new report, based on the use of statistics, is hoping to shine a light on some of these hidden mysteries. This week Matt is joined by Dr Katarzyna Anna Kapitan from the University of Oxford who talks Matt through her fascinating research, from finding out that medieval romance manuscripts were recycled into Bishop's mitres to the masses of Icelandic manuscripts discovered preserved across Europe.
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