Reading and Seeing: The Beginnings of Book Illumination and the Modern Discourse on Ethnicity.

Lawrence Nees, Professor and Chair, H. Fletcher Brown Chair of Humanities, University of Delaware

Introductions by Jerry Singerman, University of Pennsylvania Press, and Will Noel, Director, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies

Presented at the Workshop in the History of Material Texts at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and the International Center of Medieval Art.

Previously delivered on February 24, 2016, as the ICMA at the Courtauld Lecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, made possible through the generous support of Dr. William M. Voelkle.

Recorded Monday, September 12th, 2016, at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.