Leather! Parchment! Gold! Red! Blue! Bunnies! Fancy-old-looking-script-I-can’t-read-because-it’s-in-Latin! The Sermons of Nicholas of Gorran is a codex full of wonder for both the new and seasoned…
Category: Student posts
Blog posts written by students enrolled in the course
As a recovering English major and current English graduate student, I certainly have my fair share of novels, poetry collections, and plays that I…
When my Team Green-mates had already made the three biggest greens in medieval manuscripts—verdigris, malachite, and organic (plant) greens—it was time to think outside the…
If you want to get a glimpse into the life of a medieval lay person, there’s no better way to do it than to open…
[Warning: This post contains discussions of sexual assault.] Way back in my first post, I claimed that Wimmen’s Comix performed an “often-playful, sometimes-aggressive, and always-transgressive”…
This post contains images depicting sex and various stages of nudity. I know I said in the last post that Issue #3 of Wimmen’s Comix…
De Certeau, to whom Jacob dedicates The Sovereign Map, specifically defends the media consumption habits of the common man. We are not “herded” into our…
In the early 1980s, a group of sociologists at Mines ParisTech developed a new approach to their field. They sought, simply, to account for those…
Now I know what you’re thinking. And I can explain, just trust me. Despite the obvious differences in form, production, and time, comic books, in…
Let’s Jump into Lakes
When dipping our brushes into medieval pigments, we should familiarize ourselves with a common form of pigments, the lake. Lakes are an organic pigment made…