One question kept arising in this course: why are we undertaking elemental analysis in an English course? Sure, it was an atypical English course, more…
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I went into this final unit of class with equal doses of excitement and trepidation. Excitement over learning this new aspect of manuscript study alongside…
By: Nicole Todd and Roma Parikh Our literature in the library class gets up to many surprising and challenging tasks throughout the semester, which Dr.…
For the third unit of our class, Literature in the Library, we have been testing and analyzing pigment spots in medieval manuscripts. Using a portable…
By Roma Parikh Raw sienna is a yellow-brown pigment classified as an earth pigment, originally sourced from Siena, Italy,…
Roughly eleven weeks ago we all sat down in Park Hall for our first class and ever since then we have been going non-stop, cramming…
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…
One major theme of this semester’s Hargrett Hours course is the intersection of scientific analysis and humanities research. The study of medieval manuscripts is a…
The semester is wrapping up – we’re in the last week of classes here at UGA – so it’s time to reflect on where we’ve…