Dr Manuel Muñoz García is IMEMS Lecturer in Latin Palaeography of the European Middle Ages at Durham University. He specialises in the Gothic scripts of the Late Middle Ages (late 12th-15th centuries) and his main interests are: scribal identification and collaboration, Digital Humanities, fragments and transitional scripts.
His PhD – ‘Matthew Paris (c.1200-1259) and his scribal collaborators: a digital approach’ – allowed Manuel to describe and trace changes in Paris’s hand through time, as well as identifying scribal collaborators in Paris’s MSS. The use of DigiPal – now Archetype – as part of this project allowed for these descriptions and identifications to be done digitally, creating a database of images and annotations of Paris’s manuscripts. In 2023 Manuel was awarded a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship at Keio University (Tokyo, Japan), where he developed a catalogue of medieval fragments held at the university library.
Dr Arnold Hunt is IMEMS Lecturer in Early Modern Palaeography at Durham University. He specialises in the social, cultural and religious history of early modern Britain. From 2005 to 2015 he was a Curator of Manuscripts at the British Library, and from 2015 to 2019 a Lecturer in Early Modern History at Cambridge University. He has published widely in the history of early modern books and manuscripts.
His first book, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences 1590-1640, was published in 2010, and his second book, Protestant Bodies: Gesture in the English Reformation, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2024. He is currently working on a history of book collecting, Bibliomania: A History, to be published by Princeton University Press.
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