(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,…
(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,…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) It’s May, classes are over, graduates are tossing their caps in the air and walking under the arch in celebration of their four plus years at this university. Farewells are being said to favorite study spots and the dining halls, the always…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) Y’all, this semester has been wild. That’s the hip way to describe this experience, yes? If you, hypothetical reader, told me in January that I’d spend a week in New York and many hours sorting through someone else’s mail, I’d do a spit-take. But…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) It feels like two weeks have passed since the start of the semester, but it’s already over. I can hardly believe half of what’s happened- really, New York, I can’t believe that we actually went to New York- and it feels less…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) I can’t believe that it’s already April. It seems like just yesterday that Katie and I were preparing to go on our research trip to New York City, and now we’ve just finished up our CURO presentations and are preparing our final…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) At the end of February, Madison and I visited the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City to utilize their extensive collection of Books of Hours for our manuscript survey. That was almost two months ago. I still have a hard…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) I suppose that life is about balance. What, did you really think I was about to say it’s like a box of chocolates? I guess that’s fairly accurate for this whole manuscript business, as well as the trip. It all started out…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) I think I can speak for both Madison and myself when I say that the days leading up to the Morgan have been a bit stressful. We’ve seen and done interesting things while waiting to start our research in New York, absolutely,…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) We’re on the move! Thanks to the blessed gift of university funding, your favorite undergraduate researchers will be traveling to New York City to spend a week researching at the Morgan Library & Museum (well, four days, but four manuscript-packed days). We’re…