I am a postdoctoral researcher at Queen's, jointly appointed within the history and classics department. My research looks at the adoption and adaptation of written language from late antiquity to the Carolingian period (5th-9th centuries). In particular, I examine changes to the "technology of the written word" during this period, looking at the advent of the book ("codex"), changes and advances in handwriting, and widening literacy among medieval populations. The technological revolution that characterizes this period in medieval history mirrors our society's current state of change with regard to the advent of the e-reader or IPad, drastically altering how we exist as a literate society.