We love medieval manuscripts, and can’t help but be interested in the lives of the people who created them. I mean, that’s the point of…
Tag: illuminations
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…
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…
Official Experimentation Day 1 was a success! In this post, the first of several, I (Bonnie) will discuss how we went about getting started, and…
Usually, if you want to look at manuscripts other than the ones your library holds, you need to hop into a car (or onto a…
Links to other posts about this project: Adventures in Pigment-making, part 1 Adventures in Pigment-making, part 2.1 Adventures in Pigment-making, part 2.2 Adventures…
This is a story. Actually, it’s several different stories. It could be the story of How I Spent My Summer Vacation. It’s in part a…
I’m interested here in exploring the meaning behind the seemingly random collection of images that inhabit the borders of books of hours. Miniatures, though often…