jrherold

I study records (which I define as texts and/or objects intended to commemorate significant acts or events purported to have actually happened) and the modes and methods related to their production, use and preservation during the earlier half of the medieval era (ca. 400 - 1150 CE). Obviously, my interests encompass a lot of material (legal and quasi-legal texts, historically-themed narratives, relics, monuments, etc.); most of my research to date, however, has focused on the collection and preservation of diplomatic and epistolary texts. I wrote my doctoral thesis on the eleventh-century cartularies of Worcester Cathedral, and have published some material related to that research on an institutional website that I developed in 2004 (http://individual.utoronto.ca/emrecordkeeping/).