Well, a bit. At the end of last semester, the good people at the Teaching the Codex blog – a blog on teaching manuscript studies…
Tag: teaching manuscripts
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 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…
If you haven’t done so already, dear reader, you really should go read the blog posts that the students have been posting the past two…
Baltimore, Walters Museum, MS W.197 is a wonderful little Book of Hours for students to cut their manuscript teeth on. The contents are fairly straightforward,…
If you’re looking for a digital facsimile of a Book of Hours that provides plenty of hand-holding, I can’t recommend the Connolly Hours (Boston College,…
I’m excited about the Houston Book of Hours (University of Houston, Special Collections Library, BX2080.A2 1400z, Use of Reims). It’s a fun sample: easy to…
What’s in a name? Well, quite a lot when that name has the cachet Anne Boleyn’s has today. And I admit that the name is…
Text selection is a major element of course design, so I’m dedicating several blog posts to discussing which sample Books of Hours I have assigned…