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My name’s Michael Clark. I’m a PhD student here at the University of Birmingham. I’ve
been here about two years. I’m studying Medieval Greek manuscripts. There’s an unedited
and unpublished text from the eleventh-century. It’s a biblical commentary, not by one author
but made up of excerpts from earlier authors. It was made in the eleventh century by Nicetas
of Heraclea. He was a bishop of the Eastern church and a teacher. The commentary was probably
the text that he taught from when he was a teacher there on his class on the Gospel of
John. Basically I spend most of my time working with the manuscript. The thing I like is that
there isn’t a lot of secondary literature on my text, so I’ve been doing things like
identifying where the different extracts come. Even some of the more basic questions like
how many copies of this text do we have? haven’t been answered so I’ve written a paper on
that recently.