Elaine Treharne
@etreharne.bsky.social
Welsh 🏴 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever.
Baylands Preserve, Palo Alto. Pelican squadrons, waterbirds galore.
November 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Baylands Preserve, Palo Alto. Pelican squadrons, waterbirds galore.
Got these today. I reckon they should be on all reading lists!
October 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Got these today. I reckon they should be on all reading lists!
Type Design Lunch for our students in @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social at CESTA, Stanford!
October 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Type Design Lunch for our students in @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social at CESTA, Stanford!
Had fun filming a short video about the fabulous Parker.stanford.edu with @blalbritton.bsky.social today. We have a super NEH project (Global Currents) on the automated retrieval of features of manuscript layout using Parker data.
October 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Had fun filming a short video about the fabulous Parker.stanford.edu with @blalbritton.bsky.social today. We have a super NEH project (Global Currents) on the automated retrieval of features of manuscript layout using Parker data.
I’ve got company!
October 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I’ve got company!
Benicia, former capital of California
October 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Benicia, former capital of California
Stunning 1st-century monumental gilded bronze letters and punctuation marks that had fallen from a public building in Singilia Barba, Andalusia (Málaga Museum). *First century*!
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Stunning 1st-century monumental gilded bronze letters and punctuation marks that had fallen from a public building in Singilia Barba, Andalusia (Málaga Museum). *First century*!
Granada quite good; Córoba exceptional.
September 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Granada quite good; Córoba exceptional.
Palace of Charles V, Granada
September 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Palace of Charles V, Granada
Look at the ‘T’ though in this first-century inscription for Lucius Vibius Rusticus (Museo de Málaga)
September 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Look at the ‘T’ though in this first-century inscription for Lucius Vibius Rusticus (Museo de Málaga)
Beautifully preserved seal of Henry III on original silk cords at Cambridge, St John’s College Archives
September 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Beautifully preserved seal of Henry III on original silk cords at Cambridge, St John’s College Archives
Whitby. Ominous.
September 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Whitby. Ominous.
York Minster Chapter House
September 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
York Minster Chapter House
Name that nave in one! (York)
September 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Name that nave in one! (York)
Markenfield medieval moated manor house
September 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Markenfield medieval moated manor house
Mesmerizing 15thC altar frontal in Chipping Camden church. Assumption of the Virgin stitched with gold and silver thread. Angels’ wings are peacock feathers. Look at Mary’s lovely face!
September 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Mesmerizing 15thC altar frontal in Chipping Camden church. Assumption of the Virgin stitched with gold and silver thread. Angels’ wings are peacock feathers. Look at Mary’s lovely face!
Five years have past; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters!
Devil’s Pulpit over Tintern, before the rains came, and chasing Wordsworth.
Of five long winters!
Devil’s Pulpit over Tintern, before the rains came, and chasing Wordsworth.
August 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Five years have past; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters!
Devil’s Pulpit over Tintern, before the rains came, and chasing Wordsworth.
Of five long winters!
Devil’s Pulpit over Tintern, before the rains came, and chasing Wordsworth.
Medieval Treasury and Muniments Room in the Vicars Close at Wells. Spectacular!
August 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Medieval Treasury and Muniments Room in the Vicars Close at Wells. Spectacular!
Chapter House, Wells
August 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Chapter House, Wells
Uffington White Horse and Dragon’s Hill
August 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Uffington White Horse and Dragon’s Hill
Silbury Hill. A day of ancient landscapes.
August 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Silbury Hill. A day of ancient landscapes.