Michelle P. Brown

Wonderful placement of the book within its time period, history and in conjunction with other art. Brown obviously knows her business. This is the book that has convinced me that I buy just about anything with Michelle Brown's name on it.

There was an in depth discussion of the production techniques involved and the process behind the Lindisfarne gospels, not just another recounting of the same 3 or 4 tired and redundant manuscript pictures that are the ones you see from the gospels every show more time they are mentioned.

She has the chops, and the expertise and knows what she is talking about and it shows throughout this book.; in fact, it's probably time for a re-read since this was one of the first illumination books I read and I will now probably get even more out of her writing! show less

The content of this book is fascinating and comprehensive - like the range of Bede's interests - but the quality of the physical book itself is outstanding. It is a truely beautifully bound, illustrated and put together object - one worthy of its subject matter.

This book is less useful than it seems it ought to be. I mean, it has actual exemplars, with full transcriptions, and historical info on the script used. But the pictures are black and white, and what's worse, pretty small - you can't really see how the individual letters are formed. And the text might be interesting to a paleographer, but it isn't particularly useful to a wannabe scribe. It's not a bad book, but.

Very fine little book, which does perfectly what it tries to do: stimulate the reader to explore further into the labyrinth of Lindisfarne.