Paternosters

wall rosaries part I Back in the very beginning of this blog I wrote an article called Up against the wall , which discussed very large rosa...

Every so often I make a batch of medieval-style rosaries as gifts for friends or special occasions (and before you ask, no, I'm not maki...

The Book of Guaman Poma It's difficult to stay on topic while doing research. If you have any natural curiosity at all, you inevitably r...

While reading the other day about rosaries in the Andes, I ran across something I hadn't seen before: mention of devotion to the Virgin ...

I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering where people kept their paternoster or rosary beads when not using them. As we have seen, someti...

A book worth breaking my no-book-buying-because-I'm-poor moratorium for doesn't come along every day. But this one definitely qualif...

Because my name is out there on the Internet, I get the occasional question from someone trying to find information about historical rosarie...

Several people alerted me to two gold rosaries that were listed last winter in an upcoming sale at Bonham's auction house -- for which, ...

Excuse the geekery, but I attended a talk on Google Analytics recently, and I've now installed it on this blog. Google Analytics is a fr...

I'm an independent scholar not affiliated with a university, so I'm not always in the mainstream of news about the subjects that I...

I taught a class on reliquaries not too long ago, and since I'm often interested in making reproductions of medieval or renaissance rosa...

My "Christmas card" is running a bit late this year, and I had to do some rummaging around to find something I liked, since I'...

While this is not the Project That Ate My Life that I mentioned in the last post, it is one of the things I've been working on in the b...

part 3 of a series The first essential of doing research on rosaries and paternosters is to be able to identify paternoster beads when we se...