{"id":3210,"date":"2022-04-19T16:36:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T21:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/?page_id=3210"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:16:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:16:36","slug":"early-modern-letter-locking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/early-modern-letter-locking\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Modern Letter-Locking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder -->\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"site-section site-panel__explore panel panel-explore site-section__bg--default\"\n\t\t\tdata-depth=\"\"\n\t\t\tdata-js-panel=\"explore\"\n\t\t>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"site-section__inner l-wrapper  explore\">\n\t\n\t\n\t\n    <div class=\"site-panel__explore-chevron site-panel-shape-bbc--purple-teal\"><\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"site-grid site-grid__wrapper site-section__content site-panel__explore-content\">\n\n        <div class=\"t-content site-panel__explore-desc site-grid__col site-grid__col--flex-2\">\n            <h2 class=\"site-section__title h3\" id=\"brett-defries-visiting-assistant-professor-english\" data-name=\"title\" data-livetext data-depth=\"0\" data-index=\"0\">Brett DeFries &#8211; Visiting Assistant Professor, English<\/h2>\n\n            <p>In my Fall 2020 English 220 (Body, Mind, Soul) course, I collaborated with Jillian Sparks on a Letter-Locking project within our unit on John Donne\u2019s letter-writing (and locking) practice. Students composed letters to friends and then transcribed them with quills and ink that Jillian made herself. After completing their letters, they locked them following the model of Youtube videos that recreate several of John Donne\u2019s letter-locking methods.<\/p>\n<table style=\"vertical-align: middle;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3111\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/nature-connectedness-in-childrens-literature\/lightbulb\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/files\/2022\/04\/lightbulb.png?fit=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"100,100\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lightbulb\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/files\/2022\/04\/lightbulb.png?fit=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3111\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/files\/2022\/04\/lightbulb.png?resize=50%2C50&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Class Project, English 220<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3113\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/nature-connectedness-in-childrens-literature\/tools\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/files\/2022\/04\/Tools.png?fit=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"100,100\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tools\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/files\/2022\/04\/Tools.png?fit=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3113\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/files\/2022\/04\/Tools.png?resize=50%2C50&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4>Quill &amp; Ink, Letter Locking, YouTube<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3114\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/nature-connectedness-in-childrens-literature\/link-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/files\/2022\/04\/Link-1.png?fit=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"100,100\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Link (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/files\/2022\/04\/Link-1.png?fit=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3114\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/files\/2022\/04\/Link-1.png?resize=50%2C50&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/letter-locking\">Letter Locking<\/a> Video<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u2190 <a href=\"\/disco\/project-showcase\"><em>Back to Teaching and Learning Showcase<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n\n        \n            <\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n<!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3210","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8PV90-PM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4005,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3210\/revisions\/4005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/disco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}