Guest Post: Middle Pages, by Josephine Livingstone
Guest Post: Middle Pages, by Josephine Livingstone
One of the great things about having a corporate newsletter is that you can write whatever the hell you want. You’re editor, publisher, and sponsor. It’s Platonic publishing.
But it doesn’t have to be all about us. Recently we decided to start paying and publishing guest writers who have interesting things to say. It’s like native advertising, except the opposite.
With that in mind we asked Josephine Livingstone, a writer, medievalist, and smart person, if she’d round up some cool links to interesting medieval visual archives. She promptly turned in exactly that—but prefaced it with a brief, thoughtful, and informed essay that discusses the relationship between the physical properties of parchment and the cultural priorities of digital archives. She also turned all of this in several days before deadline. It was really something. If you have cultural production needs, you should consider hiring her yourself!
So there you go. If you enjoy thinking thoughts about the nature of the digital commons and you like to know where to get amazing medieval drawings of cranes, well, have we got the heavily-illustrated post for you.
More guest writers are welcome (and if there are people we should ask, let us know that too). We’ll probably only publish one or two a month until we figure out what we’re doing. The ideal post is like Jo’s: A useful and usable short guide to something, with some thinking to help the reader make sense of it. We’re paying a few hundred bucks. Feel free to drop a line.