Alixe Bovey

Alixe Bovey is a Canadian medieval art historian and head of research at the Courtauld Institute of Art, a college of the University of London.[1] Her personal 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.[2][3][4]

Selected publications
  • (2002) Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts, The British Library Publishing Division
  • (2005) The Chaworth Roll: A Fourteenth-Century Genealogy of the Kings of England, Sam Fogg Rare Books
  • (2005) The Tacuinum Sanitatis: An Early Renaissance Guide to Health, Sam Fogg Rare Books

References
  1. Alixe Bovey at the Courtauld Institute of Art, accessed Feb 2016
  2. Alixe Bovey at University of Kent, accessed Feb 2016
  3. BBC In Search of Medieval Britain, accessed Oct 2010
  4. Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Gough Map plays its part in search for Medieval Britain, accessed Oct 2010


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