FELLOW OF THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES AND PROFESSOR OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Professor Bernard Muir is currently working on a project titled 'The Digital History of the Manuscript Book'. This project, which has funding from a teaching development grant from the University of Melbourne, uses manuscript resources from Victorian collections (SLV and Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in particular) to illustrate both the evolution of scripts and the preparation and presentation of texts preserved in manuscript format.
Since these collections are limited in the range of scripts and genres of books represented, supplementary materials will be used from overseas collections (esp. The Bodleian Library, The British Library, and the J.P. Getty Museum). The project will be presented on a DVD that is to include numerous original illustrations of various aspects of the making of the codex and video components demonstrating how gatherings/quires were sewn together on a frame in preparation for binding and also how medieval scribes worked.
Consultancies and Directorships
~ Director of Evellum (www.evellum.com), producer of fine scholarly digital facsimiles of medieval manuscripts.
~ Project Manager and Publisher of the Bodleian Digital Texts series (Oxford).
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
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Culture And Communication
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International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Toronto
Licentiate in Mediaeval Studies
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Master of Arts
University of Toronto
Bachelor of Arts
University of Toronto