Alixe Bovey
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Alixe Bovey is a lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Kent
at Canterbury, UK. Her research has been chiefly concerned with pictorial narratives and their cultural and literary context. She has also written on medieval monsters. Perhaps most notably she presented the BBC television series In Search of Medieval Britain (2008) in which she retraces a series of journeys through Britain in the Middle Ages using the Gough Map
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University of Kent
The University of Kent, previously the University of Kent at Canterbury, is a public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom...
at Canterbury, UK. Her research has been chiefly concerned with pictorial narratives and their cultural and literary context. She has also written on medieval monsters. Perhaps most notably she presented the BBC television series In Search of Medieval Britain (2008) in which she retraces a series of journeys through Britain in the Middle Ages using the Gough Map
Gough Map
The Gough Map or Bodleian Map is a map of the island of Great Britain, dating between 1355 and 1366, and is the oldest surviving route map of Great Britain. Its precise date of production and authorship are unknown. It is named after Richard Gough, who donated the map to the Bodleian Library in 1809...
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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