The semester is wrapping up – we’re in the last week of classes here at UGA – so it’s time to reflect on where we’ve…
Category: Professor posts
Blog post written by Dr Camp or, if this is ever team-taught, other professors or visiting academics
I had the pleasure Friday afternoon of hearing a stimulating talk by Dr Karla Mallette, Professor of Italian and Near Eastern Languages and Director of…
This week, we’ve begun the Hargrett Hours project for real. Or, to be more precise, we’ve geared up this week with preliminary work and organizing.…
Most days, my classes go to the Hargrett Library to study medieval books hundreds of years old. Last Wednesday, however, my First-Year Odyssey students got…
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…
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…
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…