It’s Eclipse Day across the US, and here at UGA we caught 99% coverage (which was, I learned by sitting in Sanford Stadium with 20,000…
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Wow – where have the days gone? The first week of the semester has flown by here at UGA and it was good to get…
The semester is wrapping up here. Last finals are being administered today; students are packing up to head home for Christmas break; professors are grading…
[Note: In October, I gave a presentation on the work of this course — a sort of apologia for the course as well as 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…
This week, we’ve begun the Hargrett Hours project for real. Or, to be more precise, we’ve geared up this week with preliminary work and organizing.…
Most days, my classes go to the Hargrett Library to study medieval books hundreds of years old. Last Wednesday, however, my First-Year Odyssey students got…
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…
The fragment description/practicum assignment that I ran last week was, it seems, a success. Certainly, judging from the students’ experience in class on Thursday especially…
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…