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Professor Laura Cleaver

Co-director of the London International Palaeography School and Professor in Manuscript Studies

Qualifications:

PhD (2008), The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

Email address:

laura.cleaver@sas.ac.uk

Profile

Laura's research focuses on medieval illuminated manuscripts of the twelfth and thirteenth century, particularly those made in France and England. She is also interested in the trade in pre-modern books in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and how this impacted the formation of libraries and the development of scholarship. In 2023-2025 she is part of a team working on a digital edition of Peter of Poitiers Compendium of biblical history. She teaches on the MA in Book History and for the summer school course Introduction to Palaeography and Manuscript Studies.