Dr. Jean-Patrice Boudet will give a lecture on ‘Magical Images in Late Medieval Manuscripts‘ at The Warburg Institute. The lecture is part of a series dedicated to the material aspects of making magical images. The lecture will take place online, on November 10, 2021, at 5:30 (BST). For more details and a link to the registration form, see: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/whats-on/stargates

  Penn State University Press has published a book by Elina Gertsman – The Absent Image. Lacunae in Medieval Books (2021). The monograph discusses the notion of horror vacui and explores how medieval authors responded to the problem of space.

Hachette has published a monograph by Mary Wellesley – ‘Hidden Hands. The Lives of Manuscripts and their Makers’ (2021), concerned with the production and history of manuscripts. The book relates the history of the Beowulf manuscript, the works by Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, Sir Thomas Malory, Geoffrey Chaucer, the Pastons letters and Shakespeare. ‘Hidden Hands‘ tells stories about the artisans, artists, authors, scribes, readers, patrons and art collectors who have shaped the history of manuscripts important for English and European history.