Bologna Redux: A Fresh Look at the Beginnings of Legal Manuscript Illumination
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Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Jan 13, 2022 6pm - 7pm
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Presented on Zoom
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presented by Susan L’Engle, professor emerita, Saint Louis University
Textbooks made for law professors and students, lawyers, and judges represent a major category of manuscripts made in the northern Italian city of Bologna in the late Middle Ages. Hundreds of examples survive, and in them we find distinctive page layouts, illuminated courtroom scenes and illustrations of societal regulations, and the marginal annotations of readers. Susan L’Engle has spent her academic career studying Bolognese legal manuscripts of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. In this lecture presented in conjunction with the exhibition Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City, Dr. L’Engle takes us on a journey of how she first became interested in these complex and sophisticated books.
