JEAN DE CARPENTIN'S BOOK OF HOURS: The Genius of the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book

by Alixe Bovey

Hardcover

Published January 1, 2011

About the author

Alixe Bovey FSA (born 1950) is a Canadian medieval art historian and Dean and Deputy Director at the Courtauld Institute of Art, a college of the University of London. Her research has been chiefly concerned with pictorial narratives and their cultural and literary context. She has also written on medieval monsters.

In 2008, Bovey presented the BBC television series In Search of Medieval Britain, in which she retraced a series of journeys through Britain in the Middle Ages using the Gough Map.