Art History 705 - Grad Seminar in Medieval Art

This graduate seminar will introduce students to the history of manuscript illumination as well as printed illustration at the end of the Middle Ages, a period that experienced radical changes in the technology, function, and dissemination of the book. A number of theoretical perspectives and methodologies will inform our investigations, the opportunity to experience manuscripts and early printed books first-hand will deepen our analyses, and consideration of what "the book" is as a medium will carry us to the digital environment in which medieval objects are, nowadays, so often experienced.

Open to Graduate students only. This class will be taught in the Special Collections Rare Book room at the Du Bois Library