Dr Alixe Bovey journeys north beginning at York, stopping off at the medieval street, 'Shambles', which was used mainly by butchers and traders working with other parts of butchered animals. York ...

The Courtauld Institute of Art in London, the UK's only higher education institution to focus solely on the history and conservation of art, has announced it will enter into a ten-year "strategic ...

Knights fighting snails, murderous rabbits, mischievous monkeys. The images in medieval margins range from the playful to the bizarre. With Dr Alixe Bovey. Show more Walking fish, knights fighting ...

"Co-published by the British Library"--Colophon. Beckwith, J. Bruce. Bibliotheca Beckwithiana (unpublished), 52. SCDIRB copy 390880019622067 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries: The Beckwith-Browning ...

Medieval art historian Alixe Bovey was also embarking on a journey. She was setting off In Search of Medieval Britain (BBC4) using, appropriately enough, Britain’s oldest route map, the 14th-century ...

THIS is a tale of monks going commando and a tightrope walker falling to his death at Durham Cathedral. The knickerless monks are revealed by Dr Alixe Bovey as she goes In Search Of Medieval Britain.

A magnificently illustrated 700-year-old manuscript describing the history of the monarchy is to go on public sale for the first time since it was produced by one of the greatest artists of 15th ...