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Perhaps no other relic from the European Middle Ages captures our imagination more than illuminated medieval manuscripts, or those documents decorated with images and colored pigments. Serving as windows into a lost world of kings, ladies, faith, war and culture, they communicate complex visual and textual narratives of Europe's collective cultural heritage. In this way, illuminated manuscripts are dynamic messages from our communal past that are still relevant today in fields like graphic design and typography. In this seven-week course, students will explore the material creation, content, and historical context of medieval European illuminated manuscripts. Students will gain an introductory knowledge of their distinctive features, their cataloging and periodization (when they were created), the methods used to produce them, and their historical context and value. Student performance will be assessed using not just traditional multiple-choice tests, but more importantly, it will be assessed based on individual student projects. In their final projects, students will either (1) produce a board of annotated images on medieval manuscripts or (2) prepare a physical manuscript using medieval methods. The best of these peer-reviewed projects will be published on the Deciphering Secrets website, which is our collective citizen scholarship web presence that encourages and supports the appreciation and contributions of our global citizen scholars to medieval manuscript transcription. Finally,
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