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”…
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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,…
Here’s a follow-up experimentation update for the color red. Bonnie and I, Honors students in Dr. Camp’s medieval manuscripts class have…
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…
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…
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…