So last night I finished up my post about how to teach prayers in a literature classroom, went home, opened my mailbox, and lo! A…
Month: September 2016
Books of Hours are primarily anthologies of prayers. They are handbooks for how to address the Divine, providing tried-and-true scripts for how to catch His…
Baltimore, Walters Museum, MS W.197 is a wonderful little Book of Hours for students to cut their manuscript teeth on. The contents are fairly straightforward,…
Books of Hours are time regulation devices. This ought to be an obvious statement — they open with a calendar, and they are called horae…
The fragment description/practicum assignment that I ran last week was, it seems, a success. Certainly, judging from the students’ experience in class on Thursday especially…
If you’re looking for a digital facsimile of a Book of Hours that provides plenty of hand-holding, I can’t recommend the Connolly Hours (Boston College,…
I’m excited about the Houston Book of Hours (University of Houston, Special Collections Library, BX2080.A2 1400z, Use of Reims). It’s a fun sample: easy to…
It’s International Literacy Day! And the idea of that day that cuts to the quick of this course’s central problematic: how could medieval laypeople actually…
What’s on this week? It’s practicum time — the week the students actually apply the codicology, paleography, and (to a lesser degree, sadly) illumination skills…
What’s in a name? Well, quite a lot when that name has the cachet Anne Boleyn’s has today. And I admit that the name is…