Michelle P. Brown
Author · 23 books
Michelle P. Brown is Professor Emerita of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She was previously (1986–2004) Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library. She has been a historical consultant and on-screen expert on several radio and television programmes. She has published books on the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Luttrell Psalter and the Holkham Bible.
Series
Books

Transformation of the Roman World AD 400-900
1997

The Luttrell Psalter
A Facsimile
2006

The Sherborne Missal
Turning the Pages
2002

How Christianity Came to Britain and Ireland
2006

The Lindisfarne Gospels
Treasures in Focus
2006

The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Early Medieval World
2010

A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600
1990

The Lindisfarne Gospels
Society, Spirituality and the Scribe
2003

Illumino
A History of Medieval Britain in 12 Illuminated Manuscripts
2025

In the Beginning Was the Word
Books and Faith in the Age of Bede: Jarrow Lecture 2000
2000

Painted Labyrinth
The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels
2004

Bede and the Theory of Everything
2023

Mercia
An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe
2001

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
1991

The World of the Luttrell Psalter
2007

The Historical Source Book for Scribes
1999

The Book of Cerne
Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth-Century England
1996

Art of the Islands
Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Visual Culture, c. 450-1050
2015

Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon Age
2007

Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts
A Guide to Technical Terms
1994

Christian Art
2021

The Lion Companion to Christian Art
2008

In the Beginning
Bibles Before the Year 1000
2006


