Medieval manuscript scholar, James Marrow, will be visiting
Furman for two CLP lectures. Marrow is a scholar of
international reputation, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Princeton
University and Honorary Keeper of Illuminated Manuscripts at The Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge University, UK. He will be giving two talks on the
redesign of manuscripts in the Middle Ages.
CLP - Tuesday, November 27: “In prinicpio erat verbum”
How books were radically reconfigured in the early Middle Ages to communicate the idea that Scripture is divine in substance and in reference.
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Littlejohn Lecture Room
Roe Art Building
CLP - Wednesday, November 28: “Picturing Meaning”
How pictures and pictorial ideas came to prominence in the
redesign of books’ script, decoration, and illustration in the late Middle Ages.
7:30-8:30
p.m.
Plyler Hall 126
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