THE SOCIAL LIFE OF ILLUMINATION

This anthology is the first broadly based exploration of an issue now emerging at the intersection of art history and literary study : how the interplay of images and texts in medieval manuscripts enabled an array of social interactions that helped shape individual and communal experience and identities. An interdisciplinary group of scholars, from Art History, English, and French departments, has combined to explore the ways in which pictures in a book can have a 'social life'. Setting aside the traditional assumption that illumina...[Read more]