Early Modern English Palaeography 2024-2025 - mid morning class

The Warburg Institute’s English Palaeography course is designed to help students analyse handwritten vernacular textual sources for the early modern period. Students will be introduced to the basic principles of palaeography and the key scripts used to produce manuscripts and documents in England between the late fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, with an emphasis on developing the necessary skills to accurately transcribe unseen texts. No previous training in palaeography is expected, though ideally students will have at least some familiarity with the early modern English language.

This course does not award CATS credits, but students will be able to take a mock and final exam, and receive feedback, in late spring or early summer 2025, dates tbc. The exam will be taken online at home and not under "exam conditions".