Research
In the Fall term, students will focus their study on one of Carleton's medieval folios (the art and science of fragmentology). The goal will be to gather information, contextualize your folio through additional readings/ research and present the folio to your fellow students at the end of term.
Gather information. As we do exercises in class in first term, you will learn terminology and the means to gather different kinds of information about your folio. You will describe and transcribe a folio.
Contextualize. You will do research on your folio, trying to figure out more information about by reading secondary sources and comparing it to other digitized manuscripts.
Present. In the final class of first term, you will offer a quick (10 minute) presentation (oral + slideshow) describing your findings and what you found interesting about it.
Catalogue. The final descriptions/transcripts of the folios will be put together into a shared catalogue (written using uniform structures and styles) in a jointly authored google document. Together we will write up a short introduction to the medieval material we study.
The next stage, an Exhibition, will get us to present information to the public.
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