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…
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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…
Books of Hours are time regulation devices. This ought to be an obvious statement — they open with a calendar, and they are called horae…
It’s International Literacy Day! And the idea of that day that cuts to the quick of this course’s central problematic: how could medieval laypeople actually…