Beatrice Radden Keefe

Beatrice Radden Keefe is the author of The Illustrated Afterlife of Terence’s Comedies (800–1200) and teaches at the University of Zurich. (October 2024)

Illuminating the Scriptorium

“There is possibly too much emphasis on the ‘wackiness’ of medieval life and thought. How easily we chortle at the goings-on in the margins of Gothic manuscripts, as if the pages were meant only to be silly.”

October 12, 2024

Happy Island of Psalters and Cucumbers

Thirteen hundred years ago, the monks on the German lake island of Reichenau tended a rich meadow of wall painting, manuscript making, and Latin poetry. An exhibit celebrating the anniversary chronicles the monastery’s history and art.

World Heritage of the Middle Ages: 1,300 Years of the Monastic Island of Reichenau

an exhibition at the Baden-Württemberg State Archaeological Museum, Konstanz, Germany, April 20–October 20, 2024

October 17, 2024 issue

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