When I first selected this class over seven months ago, I felt like it was a course I couldn’t pass up. I saw it…
Manuscripts at UGA
Science and Humanities. At first glance, these subjects seem to be unrelated and located on opposite ends of the academic spectrum. I initially believed this…
Medieval manuscripts are a “niche interest” in the academic world. Even within the realms of English, history, and art, these beautiful, hand-written documents largely go…
by Bonnie Hester …and why should we care?? That’s just the question I’m going to answer in this post! More specifically, I am going to…
When we first started this Unit in color pigment analysis, I was really eager to learn how some of the pigments were made. When we…
Before coming to UGA, I was interested in possibly pursuing a library career, but I didn’t know that UGA had any classes that dealt with…
When we started the manuscript color unit a couple of weeks ago, I wasn’t expecting it to alter my understanding of manuscripts that much. Sure,…
Roughly eleven weeks ago we all sat down in Park Hall for our first class and ever since then we have been going non-stop, cramming…
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…
Our project (recreating medieval pigments) is officially at a close! In this post, we will be reflecting back on what we took away from this…