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Mediaeval Studies

Alixe Bovey is Professor of Medieval Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Her publications focus on medieval art and visual culture, particularly illuminated manuscripts, pictorial narrative, and the relationship between images, texts and material culture. Her books include Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts (2002), The Chaworth Roll (2005), The Tacuinum Sanitatis (2005), and The Book of Hours of Jean de Carpentin (2011). Her essays have explored subjects including the Gothic marginalia and the ethics of mirth, art historical periodisation, art and immateriality, and Eucharistic imagery. She is a contributor to the publication accompanying the British Library’s exhibition Conquest: The Making of Norman England (opening in 2027). She is editor-in-chief of the open access journal British Art Studies, published by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art and the Yale Centre for British Art, and sits on the PMC’s publications committee. She is engaged in the conservation and interpretation of historic buildings through membership of the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England and the Fabric Advisory Committee for Canterbury Cathedral. She joined The Courtauld as Head of Research in 2015, and served as Executive Dean and Deputy Director 2020–25.