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The Medieval Book | 2024

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Time
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Location

Online

Institute

Institute of English Studies

Event type

Short Course

Speakers

Michelle Brown (IES

Contact

Email only

This online course held by Michelle Brown will provide an intensive introduction to manuscript culture during Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The historical contexts for manuscript production will be explored and the landscape populated with some of those who commissioned and made these remarkable works. Techniques of production, terminology and methods of description and cataloguing will be examined and a brief survey of palaeography and codicology will be provided. 

This short course is part of the London Rare Books School programme.


Course fees
  • Standard Rate: £175
  • Concession* Rate: £100

*student/unwaged

Bookings will close on the 25 February 2024.


This page was last updated on 15 March 2025