Art Break: Pilgrimage, War, Trade–Travel in the Middle Ages

Larisa joined the Department of Manuscripts in 2016. She earned her PhD in the history of art from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016. Her research areas include late medieval and Renaissance French illuminated manuscripts and paintings, multimedia 15th-century visual culture, early printing, materiality, royal patronage of the arts, and modern medievalisms. Her recent exhibition projects include Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World (2019), Blurring the Line: Manuscripts in the Age of Print (2019), Transcending Time: The Medieval Book of Hours (2021), Painted Prophecy: The Hebrew Bible through Christian Eyes (2022), and The Fantasy of the Middle Ages (2022).

Anthony Bale is professor of Medieval & Renaissance Literature at the University of Cambridge and professorial fellow at Girton College, Cambridge. He is a former president of the New Chaucer Society. His previous books include Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life (Reaktion Books) and A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World through Medieval Eyes (Penguin). He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2011) and holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2023-26). He has held fellowships at institutions including Harvard University, The Huntington Library, and the University of Melbourne.