Staff profile

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, including works such as the Chronica Majora or the Vie de Seint Auban. 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, whilst also delivering workshops and lectures on Medieval Latin Palaeography. 

Manuel is currently leading an online course on Latin European Medieval Palaeography at the IMEMS Learning Centre.