For our research project in Unit 2, I studied the the Aussem Hours, W.437 at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD, made for the Aussem family…
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Throughout this section, there has not been one defining moment that has opened the gates of understanding about the book of hours for me. However,…
Religion is the sort of thing that resonates with people on a deeply personal level. As a whole, a book of hours is like a…
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…
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…