The Library Channel is proud to present the 2010 Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Distinguished Lecture in Medieval Studies. The 2010 Distinguished Lecture was offered on October 28th to celebrate donation of the Heritage Edition of the Saint John's Bible to Arizona State University. This extraordinary and generous donation by ASU Alumnus George Berkner, standing two feet tall and three feet wide, is one of the very few complete handwritten and hand illuminated editions of the Bible to be released in five hundred years. Arizona State University is the first secular institution of higher education to receive one of only 299 copies of the Heritage Edition.

The Distinguished Lecture, entitled The Great Illuminated Bibles of 12th-century England, was presented by Dr. Rodney M. Thomson of the University of Tasmania. Dr. Thomson covers the creation, historic significance and beauty of grand, illuminated (illustrated / decorated) Bibles, from a time when expensive materials and the enormous labor made creating them as a single, physical unit a rarity.

Dr. Robert Bjork, Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies introduces Dr. Thomson.

Running Time: 1:09:11

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies - http://www.acmrs.org/

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The Saint John's Bible - http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/