This section for Graduate Students only.
This section meets with FINA A323.

From the fourth century A.D., artists created elaborate decorations
and  illustrations in manuscripts of sacred and secular texts.
Meant to delight as well as instruct, these illustrations commented
on the text at the same time that they enchanted the reader with
visions and stories from the book itself.  Starting with the
invention of the codex in the first century, and continuing to the
end of the Middle Ages, this course will investigate the tools,
methods and inspiration behind the creation of the medieval
manuscript.  Lectures will survey the most important types of
manuscripts, such as Psalters, Apocalypses and Books of Hours, and
the most famous schools of manuscript illumination, such as the
Hiberno-Saxon artists who produced works like the Book of Kells.
The preferred audience of the manuscripts,  from  the embattled
mozarabic Christians of Spain, to noble women of the later Middle
Ages, will also be investigated.