CONGRESS CANCELED Illuminated Manuscripts in the Insular World

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Description

This session explores the culture of artistic and intellectual exchange and cooperation that existed within England, Ireland, and parts of the continent in the early medieval period. Specifically it focuses on the rich variety of illuminated manuscripts produced in the insular world, but exhibiting sources and influences that stretched across Europe and beyond. It does the important ant timely work of setting insular manuscripts within a global context that was not confined by the political, geographic, or disciplinary boundaries of this same area today. Catherine E. Karkov

 
May 8th, 10:00 AM

CONGRESS CANCELED Illuminated Manuscripts in the Insular World

Schneider 1220

This session explores the culture of artistic and intellectual exchange and cooperation that existed within England, Ireland, and parts of the continent in the early medieval period. Specifically it focuses on the rich variety of illuminated manuscripts produced in the insular world, but exhibiting sources and influences that stretched across Europe and beyond. It does the important ant timely work of setting insular manuscripts within a global context that was not confined by the political, geographic, or disciplinary boundaries of this same area today. Catherine E. Karkov