Although I was not primarily jetting about English manuscript archives to look at Books of Hours, I did manage to squeeze in a few amidst…
Author: Cynthia Camp
Assistant Professor of English at UGA and mastermind behind this website and the classes it represents.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve always wondered where the prayers in Books of Hours come from. When we talk about them in class, I…
We’re lucky at UGA to have a number of medieval bindings in our collections; both the Spanish Gradual and the book of canon law are…
Thanks to support from the Willson Center, I’m spending the second half of June in London and environs, looking at a whole range of medieval…
I’m simply chuffed to be heading to the University of Missouri in early March. I had the good fortune to be awarded an SEC Faculty…
Well, a bit. At the end of last semester, the good people at the Teaching the Codex blog – a blog on teaching manuscript studies…
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…
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…
This is the week we’ve been waiting for all semester: the week when Dr. Alice Hunt of UGA’s Center for Applied Isotope Studies brings a…