Professor John Lowden FBA

Investigating the millennium of the illuminated manuscript: making and using images, especially images in books, from late antiquity to the Reformation
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2013
Year of death
2026
Subjects
Art history

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Professor of History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Briony Fer FBA

Modern and contemporary art; abstraction; special interests in the legacies of the constructive avant-gardes and in contemporary art; the relationship between art and theory; new critical perspectives on art

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Professor Roberta Gilchrist FBA

Medieval and social archaeology, particularly gender and religion; burial, magic and religious communities, including nunneries, monasteries, hospitals, Norwich Cathedral and Glastonbury Abbey

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Professor Laura Tunbridge FBA

Cultural history of song, especially lieder; chamber music; opera studies; reception history

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