The medieval book provides a complex and valuable portal into understanding the Middle Ages and their place (and ours) in the transmission of thought in graphic form. Only now, in the electronic environment, are we picking up where the medievals left off in fully exploring the relationships between word, sound, and image. This course, the Fisher's third summer seminar, provided an intensive introduction to manuscript culture during Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, as well as the methods and terminology used in the description and cataloguing of manuscripts.
The seminar instructor, Michelle P. Brown, PhD, FSA, is an internationally acknowledged expert in the field who was formerly the Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library and Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, where she is now Professor Emerita.