The end of a fantastic week in Spain and we now have about half of the samples for the PPROTEX project. After 2 days in the Biblioteca Nacional de España I’d like to thank the wonderful members of the Departamento de Manuscritos, Incunables y Raros and the Departamento de Preservación y Conservación de Fondos, and … Continue reading “February 2026: First set of samples taken”
Author: Aengus Ward
February 2026: Codicological studies complete!
A quick word of thanks to the curators and conservators at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze and the Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial for their generosity and collaborative spirit. The PPROTEX project has now been able to carry out a full codicological analysis of all of the … Continue reading “February 2026: Codicological studies complete!”
PPROTEX: Philological and Proteomic Analysis of Texts from the Reign of Alfonso X
In October 2025, our project began. We’ll post here some details of the activities we have all been engaging on! December 2025: Very happy to have begun the analysis of manuscripts in our PPROTEX project – the beneficiary of an APEX award from the The Royal Society, The Leverhulme Trust and The British Academy.First test … Continue reading “PPROTEX: Philological and Proteomic Analysis of Texts from the Reign of Alfonso X”
Transcribe Estoria comes to an end. Maybe…
As this stage of transcribeestoria comes to an end we would like to send a big thank you to all of you who have taken part in our project. We had 300 people sign up for the project, and though the numbers who took part each week were lower, we are very pleased at the … Continue reading “Transcribe Estoria comes to an end. Maybe…”
Texto 5: Cómo el arzobispo de Toledo trasladó las reliquias y libros santos a Asturias tras la caída de Toledo
Y así llegamos a la final de nuestra selección textual de la Estoria de Espanna, en este caso un pasaje que se refiere a lo que sucedió inmediatamente después de la conquista de Toledo por los ejércitos de Tariq ibn Ziyad y Musa bin Nusair. Este es el único pasaje de la selección relacionado con el … Continue reading “Texto 5: Cómo el arzobispo de Toledo trasladó las reliquias y libros santos a Asturias tras la caída de Toledo”
Text five: the fall of Toledo and the preservation of the Christian relics and books in Asturias
And so we come to the final of our five texts from the Estoria de Espanna, which concerns what happened immediately after the conquest of Toledo by the armies of Tariq ibn Ziyad and Musa bin Nusair. This is the only passage we deal with in transcribeestoria which relates to the period after the fall … Continue reading “Text five: the fall of Toledo and the preservation of the Christian relics and books in Asturias”
La España medieval: donde se encuentran dos mundos Dr. Christian Kusi-Obodum Texto 4
La Península Ibérica está separada del norte de África en su punto más cercano por apenas una docena de millas marítimas. A lo largo de muchos siglos, la España medieval fue una frontera entre dos de las grandes religiones del mundo: el cristianismo y el islam. Era un lugar gobernado por reyes, califas, emperadores y … Continue reading “La España medieval: donde se encuentran dos mundos Dr. Christian Kusi-Obodum Texto 4”
Medieval Spain: where two worlds meet Dr. Christian Kusi-Obodum – Text 4
The Iberian Peninsula is separated from North Africa at its nearest point by barely a dozen miles of sea. Over the course of many centuries, medieval Spain was a frontier between two of the world’s great faiths: Christianity and Islam. It was a place where kings, caliphs, emperors and emirs ruled. Churches and mosques were … Continue reading “Medieval Spain: where two worlds meet Dr. Christian Kusi-Obodum – Text 4”
Texto 4: Los orígenes del Islam en la Estoria de Espanna. ¿Por qué?
Nuestro penúltimo texto puede parecer un episodio hasta cierto punto curioso para incluir en una historia de España. Como hemos visto, la primera mitad de la Estoria contiene mucho material relacionado fundamentalmente con la historia romana, en el que a veces ni siquiera se menciona a España. Después el relato nos lleva a la historia de los … Continue reading “Texto 4: Los orígenes del Islam en la Estoria de Espanna. ¿Por qué?”
Text four: why would the Estoria de Espanna contain the origins of Islam?
Our latest text might seem like a curious episode to include in a history of Spain. As we have seen, the first half of the Estoria contains much material which is fundamentally Roman history, and this often doesn’t even mention Spain. It then goes on to give us the history of the Goths, which takes … Continue reading “Text four: why would the Estoria de Espanna contain the origins of Islam?”