Passion Devotion in Books of Hours

(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) The central research project for this semester’s Hargrett Hours course has been the Passion material in the manuscript. Most centrally, we’re interested in how the six prayers and the Passion account from the Gospel of John fit into the broader landscape of

England research postmortem

(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) Although I was not primarily jetting about English manuscript archives to look at Books of Hours, I did manage to squeeze in a few amidst my primary task (looking at manuscripts owned by nuns). All told, I examined eleven Books of Hours,

Playing with Manuscripts in England: The Percy Hours

(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) Thanks to support from the Willson Center, I’m spending the second half of June in London and environs, looking at a whole range of medieval manuscripts. Most are manuscripts used in English nunneries, but I’m also examining a number of Books of Hours,

The Hargrett Hours Suffrages as Efficacious Prayer

(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) The Suffrage group made some good headway establishing the original owner(s) and provenance of the Hargrett Hours Suffrages this semester: the inclusion of local saints like Genevieve pointed to Paris and the Suffrages’ focus on the figures of the Holy Family (Saint Anne, Saints Mary

Discoveries in the Hargrett Hours’ Calendar

(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) Through our research into the calendar of the Hargrett Books of Hours, we found it bears a striking similarity to the Paris Missal and other use of Paris calendars; it, however, also contains differences that make us confident it is use of Paris. The

Hargrett Hours Project: Game On

(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) 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. Tuesday, the students got to visit the Hargrett Hours for the first time; Wednesday, they learned what

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