It’s funny how the earth never opens up and swallows you when you want it to. Xander Harris, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Nothing says “Hello, Hellmouth”…
Manuscripts at UGA
“Welcome to the Renaissance Where our printing press has the fancy fonts, That’s right we’re fancy, and very literary, theatrical too…” “Welcome to the Renaissance,”…
Down the Rabbit Hole Like Alice down the Rabbit Hole, my research took so many twists and turns, I had no idea where I would…
The Fall 2018 iteration of the Hargrett Hours Project has been working all semester towards a digitized edition of our lovely Book of Hours. Lo…
Co-authored by Kristina Going and Katherine Haire with Kara Krewer and Ceciley Pangburn As young, naive English majors fresh from our codicology lessons, we approached…
As the Fall 2018 semester comes to a close and we look back at the work our team has accomplished, I think the biggest takeaway…
The Hargrett Hours’s French prayer that runs from folios 54r through 55v (and which I will refer to as “Tres piteux sire”) has been one…
One thing we can be certain of is that medieval society was absolutely obsessed with death. Be it the avoidance of purgatory, or a veneration…
Welcome to the strangeness of Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery MS W.441! A few things set this manuscript apart from the everyday Book of Hours. For one,…
The Walters MS W.172 of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, is a seemingly average Book of Hours at first glance. Most Books of…