medieval manuscripts

In this study the manuscript transmission, dissemination and reception of Gerald of Wales’ Topographia Hibernica (TH) and William of Rubruck’s Itinerarium ad partes Orientales (Itinerary) in England c.1185-1500 have been explored. The TH and the Itinerary are well known texts an…

Shadows are an understudied element of medieval art, having been virtually ignored for generations of art history and medieval studies. Current, and scant, scholarship on shadows in the medieval period focuses primarily on their development in the creation of perspective and dim…