Richard Gameson
Professor
Department of History
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Richard Gameson specialises in the history of the book from Antiquity to the Renaissance, and in medieval art. He has published over ninety studies on medieval manuscripts, book collections, art and cultural history, including The Old Library (1988), The Early Medieval Bible (1994), The Role of Art in the late Anglo-Saxon Church (1995), The study of the Bayeux Tapestry (1997) The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (1999), Augustine of Canterbury and the Conversion of England (1999), The Scribe Speaks: colophons in early English Manuscripts (2002), Codex Aureus: an eighth-century gospel book (2001-2).
Research Interest
Research interests include Intellectual and Cultural History, Material and Visual Culture, Medieval and Theology and Religion.
Publications
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(2007). From Symeon to Hoccleve: five medieval manuscripts in Durham University. A2Z: Palaeography Special Interest 16: 1-11.
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(2009). The last Chi-rho in the West: from Insular to Anglo-Saxon in the Boulogne 10 Gospels. Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 16: 89-107.
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(2009). Codices Aurei. The Edge 14-15: 3-7, 7-10.
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Gameson, R., Beeby, A., Duckworth, A. & Nicholson, C. (2015). Pigments of the Earliest Northumbrian Manuscripts. Scriptorium 69: 33-59.
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Beeby, Andrew, Gameson, Richard & Nicholson, Catherine (2016). Illuminators Pigments in Lancastrian England. Manuscripta 60(2): 143-164.
