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…
Category: Undergraduate
Blog posts written by undergraduate students
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…
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…
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…
By Kinsey Poland, Khayla Doby, William Baldwin, and Trisha Hyatt The Question For the Hargrett Hours spectral analysis project, our group focused on analyzing the…