Illuminating a Dark Age: Early Christian Manuscripts
Advanced computer technology with use of sophisticated digital techniques and internet is assisting art historians, archaeologists, palaeographers and others to explore and discover early connections of Christian scholars to a globalised world embracing the Roman Empire and beyond. Codices are being decoded and the science of recovering lost writing has made big strides amongst scholars East and West alike. Earliest of the surviving fully illuminated insular Gospel manuscripts of Irish influence is the Book of Durrow. The presence of…
