Professor Michelle Brown

Michelle P. Brown FSA was until 2012 Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies, School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London. She was formerly Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts and then (part-time) one of the first digital curators, British Library (1986-2011). She specialises in cultural & book history from late Antiquity to the 16th century.

Media appearances and podcasts include Time Team, In Our Time, Christianity: a history and Secrets of the Saxon Gold, Bede and the Theory of Everything (BBCEdge, HistoryHit, Meeting in the middle ages. Extensive publications include studies of the Lindisfarne Gospels, Luttrell Psalter and Holkham Bible and of Insular art and culture and the transition from late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Exhibitions include ‘The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels’ (BL) and ‘In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000’ (Smithsonian). She is Professor Emerita at SAS and Visiting Professor at University College London.