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Great Illuminated Bibles of 12th-century England

by: ASU Libraries

Publication date: 2010-10-28

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Topics: bible, history, religion, publishing, illuminated text, England, 12th Century, ASU, Arizona State, artifacts

Publisher: Arizona State University Libraries

Digitizing sponsor: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Language: English

The Library Channel is proud to present the 2010 Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Distinguished Lecture in Medieval Studies. The 2010 Distinguished Lecture was offered on October 28th to celebrate donation of the Heritage Edition of the Saint John's Bible to Arizona State University. This extraordinary and generous donation by ASU Alumnus George Berkner, standing two feet tall and three feet wide, is one of the very few complete handwritten and hand illuminated editions of the Bible to be released in five hundred years.

Arizona State University is the first secular institution of higher education to receive one of only 299 copies of the Heritage Edition. The Distinguished Lecture, entitled The Great Illuminated Bibles of 12th-century England, was presented by Dr. Rodney M. Thomson of the University of Tasmania. Dr. Robert Bjork, Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies introduces Dr. Thomson.

Running Time: 1:09:11

Credits

Introduction
Dr. Robert Bjork Foundation Professor of English
Director, ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)

Speaker
Dr. Rodney M. Thomson Honorary Research Fellow School of History and Classics University of Tasmania

Coordinators
Audrey Walters Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Robert Spindler University Archivist and Head Archives and Special Collections

Library Channel Producers
Jennifer Duvernay Library Marketing and Outreach, Arizona State University Libraries
Matthew Harp Digital Library Production Manager, Arizona State University Libraries

ASU Libraries Executive Producers
Sherrie Schmidt Arizona State University Libraries Librarian
Philip Konomos Head, Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Services ASU

Editing
Damir Pecenkovic Library Channel Intern

Production Assistance
Fred McIlvain, Mimmo Bonanni, Margaret Schmidt (Arizona State University Libraries)

Photography
Margaret Schmidt (Arizona State University Libraries)