(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) And so it begins! After a moderately manuscript-free winter break (allowing the occasional perusal of Gallica and the British Library), spring semester has finally begun, and with it so has my research. Let’s get up to speed. During Fall 2017, my work…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) And we’re back! Following the directed reading of last semester, Spring semester brings the promise of more progress and exciting new adventures. Truthfully, 2018 is rather intimidating; for one, I will be graduating in May and that is a giant bowl of…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) School has officially ended, and finals are over; Spring semester will soon begin. Despite this, the Hargrett Passion project is still on my mind. So much has been accomplished this last semester, and there’s so much that we’re looking forward to doing…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) The amount of time I’ve spent this semester on the Passion texts within the Hargett Hours seems at odds with my end-of-semester conclusion: Hargrett’s Passion material is unusual. We knew that by the end of Fall 2016, so the inability to properly…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) There are days that I feel like Gandalf in The Fellowship of the Ring, searching, sifting through information for days with only a little to go on to begin with. But then, then comes the day when all of that information begins to…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) It’s relieving when things start to fall into place. Up until now, the research I’ve been working on has felt like the beginning of a television crime drama. Everything I know is pinned to a wall, with some red string connecting bits…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) Exciting news! Ring the chapel bell! UGA’s Special Collections Library has purchased a new manuscript! This new codex is a lovely little Book of Hours, probably made in Bruges or elsewhere in the Low Countries. It’s a little more typical than the…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) Hey! Welcome to our research project. We’re Katie and Madison, undergraduates here at the UGA. Madison is an English major with a medieval literature area of emphasis, and Katie is double majoring in English and Classical Culture. We were both in Dr.…
(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…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) 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 frantically. So it’s a good day for a final post of the semester that sums up the…