📖 To learn about the history of an ornate prayer book from the Middle Ages in a class discussion is one thing, but to flip through the delicate pages of one covered in calligraphy, gold leaf and brightly painted scenes is a very different experience. 📚 This semester, students had the opportunity to work with historic and rare books in the USC Special Collections Library (uscspecol) as part of their class meetings in History 103g “The Emergence of Modern Europe” taught by Lindsay O’Neill. The books they interacted with highlighted the political, intellectual and cultural developments in Europe from the 1300s to the 1800s. ➡️ Swipe through for some of the texts they had the opportunity to interact with: 1️⃣ Book of Hours, prayer book popular in the Middle Ages 2️⃣ "The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects" by Giorgio Vasari, a multi-book series of artist biographies 3️⃣ Badianus Codex, an Aztec book of herbal medicine 4️⃣ Mercator Atlas of Europe 5️⃣ Nuremb...