One thing we can be certain of is that medieval society was absolutely obsessed with death. Be it the avoidance of purgatory, or a veneration…
Month: November 2018
Welcome to the strangeness of Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery MS W.441! A few things set this manuscript apart from the everyday Book of Hours. For one,…
The Walters MS W.172 of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, is a seemingly average Book of Hours at first glance. Most Books of…
This particular Book of Hours is London, British Library, Add. MS 54782. It’s often called “The Hastings Hours” due to its only known owner during…
For my blog post, I chose to write about the Psalter of the Passion section found in one of the British Library’s manuscripts, Harley MS…
![Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole MS 61, fol 105v-106r Romance of the Passion, ‘Testamentum Domini,’ Lamentac[i]o b[eat]e M[ari]e](https://ctlsites.uga.edu/hargretthoursproject/wp-content/uploads/sites/235/2018/11/IMAGE-OF-ASHMOLE-MS-61.jpg)
I grew up glued to my Sunday School chair, eating up every bible story I could. When Dr. Camp said we would be reading about…