Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using

Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.

Item is a replica 15th century lecturn with the four gospels chained to an iron bar above. There is a crucifix on both ends of lecturn retaining the iron bar.

An introduction to 15th century Italian painting and the social history behind it, arguing that the two are interlinked and that the conditions of the time help