One question kept arising in this course: why are we undertaking elemental analysis in an English course? Sure, it was an atypical English course, more…
Month: December 2017
The amount of time I’ve spent this semester on the Passion texts within the Hargett Hours seems at odds with my end-of-semester conclusion: Hargrett’s Passion…
I went into this final unit of class with equal doses of excitement and trepidation. Excitement over learning this new aspect of manuscript study alongside…
Once again, the end of the semester has snuck up on us like a steam train in need of a tune-up, and we’re all scrambling…
The third and final part of Literature in the Library has been spent studying the ingredients, formulas, and processes that went into creating the pigments…
If you’re like most people, you probably would not expect to walk into a college English class and hear the students throwing around phrases like…
[written by undergraduates Alexandra Carlsrud and Abraham Johnson] Throughout this past semester, our studies on medieval manuscripts have led us to some far-out places. We’ve…
By: Nicole Todd and Roma Parikh Our literature in the library class gets up to many surprising and challenging tasks throughout the semester, which Dr.…
For the third unit of our class, Literature in the Library, we have been testing and analyzing pigment spots in medieval manuscripts. Using a portable…
We love medieval manuscripts, and can’t help but be interested in the lives of the people who created them. I mean, that’s the point of…