May 19, 2010, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Digital CollectionsMedieval and early modern manuscripts collection now accessible online The Ransom Center has launched an online database for its medieval and early modern manuscripts collection. The database includes more than 7,000 digital images and can be accessed via the Ransom Center’s website. The medieval and early modern manuscripts collection contains 215 items dating from the eleventh to the seventeenth… read more
May 18, 2010, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsA new home for "Finnegans Wehg" Walter Wetzels, an emeritus professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, recently donated a German translation of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to the Ransom Center. He shares a bit of his history with the text. It must be more than 50 years ago… read more
May 10, 2010, Filed Under: Research + TeachingDoctoral theses of anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss acquired by the Ransom Center The Ransom Center has acquired the manuscripts of anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss’s major and minor doctoral theses. The typed theses, annotated with handwritten corrections, were presented by Lévi-Strauss at the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1948 upon completion of his doctorate in humanities. Lévi-Strauss’s major thesis, “Les structures élémentaires de la… read more
