Description
One of the most beautiful artifacts ever made, the Book of Kells is revered throughout the Celtic world. Each year, it draws many thousands of visitors to its home in Dublin. We explore every facet of the book’s mystique, from its supposed creation by St. Columba to its rescue from an Irish peat bog and its inspection by Queen Victoria. Could it be, as one medieval author put it, “the work, not of men, but of angels”?
Timothy Graham is a Distinguished Professor of History and a Regents’ professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNM. He served as director of the Institute for Medieval Studies from 2002 until 2020, organizing the acclaimed annual Medieval Spring Lecture Series. He holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees from Cambridge and an MPhil from the Warburg Institute, University of London. He is the author of Introduction to Manuscript Studies and in 2016 received the Medieval Academy of America’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies.