Imago Dei, Imago Mundi: Matthew Paris’s saints, relics, maps and wonders’ by Paul Binsky at Keynes Library and online

Murray Seminar: ‘Imago Dei, Imago Mundi: Matthew Paris’s saints, relics, maps and wonders’ with Paul Binski, will take place on 17 November 2025, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, Keynes Library and Online, 17:00 — 18:30 GMT. For details and registration, see Medieval Art Research website.

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Paul Binski will share his research on ‘Imago Dei, Imago Mundi: Matthew Paris’s saints, relics, maps and wonders’.

This paper will place one aspect of Matthew’s work, his representations of exceptional things, in the context of his unfolding life story. It will discuss his unusual position as a writer and artist, his interest in saints and relics, his map-making and his recording of wonders as part of a single and in many ways coherent view of the World.