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Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Counting Drop Caps: What a Prayerbook’s Initials Reveal about the Divine Office

One of the small, slightly ridiculous things I sometimes do in the archive is count the lines in decorative initials – the enlarged “drop ...

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Cynthia J. Cyrus: I'm Cynthia Cyrus, a musicologist/monastic historian and professor at Vanderbilt University. My research focuses on late medieval and early modern women's monastic culture -- literate, musical, and otherwise -- particularly at the intersections of silence, sound and memory.

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