D.Phil. 1964, M.A. 1963, B.A. 1960, Oxford.
Research Interests
Medieval European art, especially manuscript illumination.
Sample courses
Religious Devotion in Later Medieval Europe and the Patronage of the Arts
Picturing Poetry: David, Virgil, Dante, Machaut and Chaucer
European Art of the Fourteenth Century
Women and Art in the Middle Ages
Early Medieval Art in Europe
Selected publications
Studies in Italian Manuscript Illumination. London: Pindar Press, 2002.
The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination
1450-1550, editor and contributor. Munich:
Prestel, 1994.
Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Alexander, J. J. G. A. and Paul Binski, eds. Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400. London: Royal Academy of Arts in
association with Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
Insular Manuscripts 6th - 9th Century. London: Harvey Miller, 1978.
Selected honors
J. Clawson Mills Art History Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, 2002.
Fellow, Medieval Academy of America, 1999.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1995-1996
Honorary Fellow, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995
Fellow, British Academy; Fellow, 1985