Diane Reilly
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Diane Reilly is Associate Professor of History of Art at the Hope School of Fine Art, Indiana University, Bloomington. She studies manuscript art and its connection to political and institutional change in medieval Western Europe. She has written one book, "The Art of Reform in Eleventh-Century Flanders: Gerard of Cambrai, Richard of Saint-Vannes and the Saint-Vaast Bible" (2006), and a series of articles for journals such as Word and Image, Scriptorium and the Journal of Medieval History.

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How the Bible Became a Book

8 Comments | Posted January 16, 2012 | 18:36:28 (EST)

Enter any North American hotel room, pull open the drawer next to the bed, and you will encounter a remnant of late-medieval culture: a single-volume Bible. Mass-produced as a small book with tissue-thin pages, this form of Bible was actually a medieval invention, intended to make Scripture relatively uniform and...

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