Silences And Sounds

After hours and hours immersed in the Very Long Prayerbook TM from the 16 th century that I’ll be speaking on at the Medieval Congress at...

One of the things that shows up again and again in early devotional books is instruction that feels, at first glance, almost excessive. “...

Every archival journey has its moments of mystery. One of those dropped in my lap this week. Late last year, one of the Thalbach library v...

In our medievalism discussions this semester, we’ve often asked a deceptively simple question: what does it mean to “use” the medieval pas...

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