The first lecture will take place on Tuesday, 1 October at 17.30, and will be given by Kathryn Rudy (Professor of Art History, University of St Andrews) on ‘Documentary Photography of Medieval Manuscripts and Its Embedded Assumptions’. The venue will be the Nathan Bodington Council Chamber on the first floor of the Parkinson Building, and following the lecture there will be a drinks reception in the Council Antechamber to which everybody is welcome to attend.
Kathryn Rudy is a manuscript historian at the University of St Andrews. She is best known for her forensic approach to medieval books, and has pioneered the use of the densitometer to measure the grime that original readers deposited in their books. She is currently developing ways to track and measure user response of late medieval manuscripts. More details can be found at < https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/art-history/people/kmr7>.
Medieval Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society 