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Professor Daniel Wakelin primarily teaches manuscript studies for the MSt course in English Language and Literature 650-1550. His research focuses on the material remains of English literature between the fourteenth and early sixteenth centuries: manuscripts, and some printed books, and what they reveal about writing habits and reading habits. Within this field, his special interests are scribal corrections, errors and accuracy; marginalia and other ‘genres’ of writing by, for or about readers; humanist reading and scholarship; manuscripts of carols; fifteenth- and sixteenth-century courtly poetry and interludes. His current research includes a study of correcting in Middle English manuscripts and an edition of William Worcester’s The Boke of Noblesse.
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| 8 | Trailer: Medieval Manuscripts in the Bodleian | A film of a class for 'Publication Beyond Print', the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre. Filmed at the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, by Natascha Domeisen. | Daniel Wakelin, Henrike Lähnemann | 27 Mar 2019 | |
| 7 | Designing English Book Art Competition | Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses some of the inspired entries they received from contemporary book artists in response to the Designing English Exhibition | Daniel Wakelin | 18 Oct 2018 | |
| 6 | Curating the exhibition 'Designing English' | Daniel Wakelin talks about the concept behind the exhibition 'Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page' in the Weston Library, Oxford, and about the thrill of working with original material from the Bodleian collection at Oxford Medieval Studies. | Daniel Wakelin, Henrike Lähnemann | 23 Feb 2018 | |
| 5 | Come and dance with me in Ireland | The lyrics of dance songs about love and longing, jotted down without music. MS. Rawl. D. 913, fol. 1r-v. Copied in the early 1300s. Read by Helen Appleton, Daniel Wakelin. | Helen Appleton, Daniel Wakelin | 16 Jan 2018 | |
| 4 | Listeneth now and beth not deaf! | A travelling preacher recites a poem, warning about the horrors of death. MS. Add. E. 6 (R). Copied in the late 1200s. Read by Daniel Wakelin. | Daniel Wakelin | 16 Jan 2018 | |
| 3 | Teaching the Codex 1: Codicology | Daniel Wakelin (Oxford) gives a talk at the 2016 Teaching the Codex Colloquium. | Daniel Wakelin | 12 Jul 2017 | |
| 2 | Creative Commons | Scribal correction and literary craft: English manuscripts 1375-1510 | Adam Smyth talks to Professor Daniel Wakelin about his new book on cultures of correction in later medieval manuscripts. | Daniel Wakelin, Adam Smyth | 08 Jul 2014 |
| 1 | Creative Commons | Chaucer | Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of Chaucer and explains how he was one of the first to use everyday spoken English as a literary language in the 14th Century. | Daniel Wakelin | 17 Apr 2012 |