We’re very sad because we only have a few students registered for our Fall course at the Unive
We’re very sad because we only have a few students registered for our Fall course at the University of Pennsylvania. If you or a friend are an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, if you’ve ever thought it might be cool to learn about medieval manuscripts, particularly if you’re working towards a minor in digital humanities and/or global medieval studies, please consider enrolling in ARTH343: The Medieval Manuscript in the 21st Century.Have you ever wondered how we know what we know about the Middle Ages? It is very largely through books - handwritten documents, marks of lives well spent, historical documents and, often, consummate works of art. Very few people ever get the chance to handle illuminated manuscripts. This is your chance. Using the extraordinary resources of UPenn’s Kislak Center and the Free Library of Philadelphia, students of this course will handle, describe, and learn about Books of Hours, the private illuminated prayer books of noble men and women from the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. Students will also learn to use the most up to date digital tools and technologies to create their own histories and narratives about these books of hours, and to publish their work on the web should they so choose. -- source link
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