Medieval Books of Hours are a uniquely intriguing type of text, largely because they are so foreign to the average reader. While they are not…
Month: October 2016
We’re sitting on the peak of a technological revolution. The past couple hundred years have radically changed the world, so it’s easy to distance ourselves…
Books of hours clearly begin to illuminate the spiritual and religious lives of their medieval Christian owners, but I am far more concerned with what…
If you haven’t done so already, dear reader, you really should go read the blog posts that the students have been posting the past two…
I’m interested here in exploring the meaning behind the seemingly random collection of images that inhabit the borders of books of hours. Miniatures, though often…
Suspend your sense of disbelief for a moment and imagine that you are Marie of Burgundy. You are sitting in your chamber, studiously poring over…
When I walk around Atlanta, I see hundreds of different faces. The city is loud, busy and most of all, fragmented. Like most cities in…
The Book of Hours is really cool because it was personalized for the individual patron. The individual could pick and choose what prayers, illuminations, sections,…
Religion is the sort of thing that resonates with people on a deeply personal level. As a whole, a book of hours is like a…
Looking at a piece of art can be a stimulating experience in that it can take you to another place in time or lead you…