In the past fifty years, my family Bible was not used as a means for reading or studying scripture, but to store family records and…
Category: Student posts
Blog posts written by students enrolled in the course
A woman on her sickbed. After three days of illness. Paralysis taking hold. Near-death. “Hafe died” (f.101v). A crucifix held out before her. A gory…
On my first solo trip to Hargrett Libraries reading room, I felt anxious. In the days and minutes leading up, I pored over Dr. Camp’s…
The artist’s book Sea Air by Susan Allix is an excellent example of the book as a container. Sea Air the book contains sea air the thing through its selection and combination of materials. Further, in rejecting ideals that manuscripts and typical books take for granted, Sea Air facilitates engagement with the hidden decisions in every object.
The Dorothy du Rant diary is exactly what it says in its name; a diary. Filled with the memories and words of young Dorothy du…
I have approached Caxton’s Second Edition of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales with slight cynicism in the past. Coming hot off the excitement of studying the…
This semester, I have the fun job of putting together three cases for an exhibit in the Special Collections Library at UGA. The Hargrett Rare…
by Eliza Sarazua, Connor Ottem, and Johanna Hoover Have you ever thought you would get the opportunity to do some insane isotope testing on a…
What It’s All About By Emily Cooley, Corie Bolt, Ceciley Pangburn, and David Walker Undoubtedly, the oo’s and aah’s of any illuminated manuscript are the…
By: Ashley Dolin, Georgia Earley, Luke Jordan, and Leah Sample Why is an English class spending months laboring over a 15th century French manuscript? And…