Suspend your sense of disbelief for a moment and imagine that you are Marie of Burgundy. You are sitting in your chamber, studiously poring over…
Manuscripts at UGA
When I walk around Atlanta, I see hundreds of different faces. The city is loud, busy and most of all, fragmented. Like most cities in…
The Book of Hours is really cool because it was personalized for the individual patron. The individual could pick and choose what prayers, illuminations, sections,…
Religion is the sort of thing that resonates with people on a deeply personal level. As a whole, a book of hours is like a…
Looking at a piece of art can be a stimulating experience in that it can take you to another place in time or lead you…
Medieval miniatures are decorative pictures found in Books of Hours that can reveal so much about religious practices and beliefs in the Middle Ages. After spending…
A medieval book of hours is fascinating because of its peculiar place as both a physical object and a spiritual guide. Because of this…
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,…