The Medieval Book

3 credits · Undergraduate credit

This course focuses on an art form highly developed in the Middle Ages: the richly illuminated hand-written book. Students come to know such masterworks as the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Tres Riches Heures as they are learned about significant episodes in the history of manuscript production, beginning with the invention of the codex in late antiquity and ending with the advent of the printed book in the early modern era.