Librarians and museum curators are knowledge experts who can collaborate with faculty and serve as exemplary mentors to undergraduate researchers. This article discusses three exhibitions curated by undergraduates that resulted from classroom-based activities. The students engaged in original research to mount the exhibitions-an atypical form of dissemination for undergraduate research projects. One exhibition was housed in the campus art museum; another physical exhibition focused on manuscripts and early printed books from a library's special collections. A third digital exhibition is permanently hosted on the library's website. Each curating activity and exhibition is described, including the process and collaboration with colleagues in the library and art museum.w w w . c u r . o r g uarterly COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH 13 Professor Alexa Sand and a student work with an early book.
This book investigates the 'owner portrait' in the context of late medieval devotional books primarily from France and England. These mirror-like pictures of praying book owners respond to and help develop a growing concern with visibility and self-scrutiny that characterized the religious life of the laity after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. The image of the praying book owner translated pre-existing representational strategies concerned with the authority and spiritual efficacy of pictures and books, such as the Holy Face and the donor image, into a more intimate and reflexive mode of address in Psalters and Books of Hours created for lay users. Alexa Sand demonstrates how this transformation had profound implications for devotional practices and for the performance of gender and class identity in the striving, aristocratic world of late medieval France and England.
To cite this Article Sand, Alexa(2010) 'Vindictive virgins: animate images and theories of art in some thirteenth-century miracle stories', Word & Image, 26: 2, 150-159 To link to this Article:
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