Join us on February 13, 2023 from 3:30-4:30 pm in Miller Nichols Library Room 451 for a dynamic lecture exploring the intersections of technology and medieval book history. Manuscript scholar Dr. Kathryn Rudy will discuss new research related to her project "Dirty Books," which uses digital tools to investigate how books of hours were read and handled in the late Middle Ages.
An internationally-recognized scholar of the reception and function of medieval manuscripts, Dr. Kathryn Rudy (Kate) is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Art History at the University of St Andrews, a member of the St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies, and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Medieval Manuscripts and Technology. She is also an Excellence Professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
