Most of you are probably here from Personal Liturgical Calendars: Part 1. If you are not, why? I truly recommend reading the first part, and not because I wrote it. I explain much of the essentials in Part I, so check out the really cool crash course in grading. It includes the basepoint for our…
Welcome to Personal Liturgical Calendars, where I dive into a comparison of two calendars from Parisian Books of Hours. The roller coaster of questions about personal liturgical calendars stem from the mystery of the Hargrett Hours calendar. When I call something personal and liturgical, it sounds contradictory. Yet, I stand here with a very confusing…
Her [Genevieve’s] guardianship of Paris meant that Parisian men accepted a female patron. While many cities and countries (including France itself) put themselves under the patronage of the Virgin Mary, it was rare for a city, let alone a major city like Paris, to assume a totally human female saint as protectoress.” Patroness of Paris…
The list of suffrages to saints in a Book of Hours are like the owner’s favorite musicians: those saints can tell us about the owner’s devotional practice. Maybe they only listen to the Top 40 with saints like Peter, John the Baptist, and the Virgin Mary. Maybe they are ride or die for one artist…
Imagine you’re living in Paris in the fifteenth century. You have a little extra money set aside. How do you deepen your relationship with God while also publicly showing off your devotion? You want a Book of Hours. Books of Hours were the most common type of personal book in the Middle Ages, owned by…
As the Fall 2018 semester comes to a close and we look back at the work our team has accomplished, I think the biggest takeaway for Team Website is that, hey, building a website isn’t easy. No wonder coders get paid lots of money. But, in all seriousness, while we didn’t code the website ourselves,…
(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…
(This post originally appeared on the “Hargrett Hours Project” Blog. Find Original Post Here) How the heck did it get to be the fourth week of the semester already? We are rolling under a full head of steam in this semester’s manuscript course; the students are deep into the structure of Books of Hours and just…
(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,…