Students Spent Spring Break Digitally Mapping Vercelli Manuscript

Group visited Italy as part of the Ole Miss Lazarus Project

OXFORD, Miss. – Four University of Mississippi students recently traded sunshine and relaxation for ancient manuscripts and the chance of a lifetime. The three sophomores and one freshman, all students in the university’s Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, spent spring break in Vercelli, Italy, digitally mapping a 10th century text called the Vercelli manuscript asRead the story …

UM Students Use Technology to Analyze Shakespeare’s Signature

OXFORD, Miss. – Before William Shakespeare created such literary and stage classics as “Macbeth” and “Romeo and Juliet,” the legendary playwright may have labored over property deeds and other mundane legal documents. Did Shakespeare work as an attorney before achieving immortality at the Globe Theatre? That’s one of the theories a University of Mississippi professorRead the story …