If you want to take the course for a certificate, you will need to pay a fee.
You can take The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Europe for free by selecting the audit option upon enrolling. Students will acquire an introductory knowledge of their distinguishing characteristics, their cataloguing and periodization (when they were created), the methods utilized to produce them, and their historical context and value.
In this seven-week course, students will explore the material creation, content, and historical context of illuminated medieval European manuscripts. In this fashion, illuminated manuscripts are dynamic messages from our communal past that are still relevant today in fields like graphic design and typography. Serving as windows unto a lost world of kings, ladies, faith, war, and culture, they communicate complex visual and textual narratives of Europe’s collective cultural heritage and patrimony. Perhaps no other relic of the European Middle Ages captures our imagination more than illuminated medieval manuscripts, or those documents decorated with images and colored pigments. Condition is good to very good, probably closer to very good. The free course covers the following ground: Oversized hardcover with plastic-covered dust jacket. Sanchez-Prieto–two academics working out of the University of Colorado and Universidad Complutense Madrid (Spain)–have teamed up to present Deciphering Secrets: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Europe. This site offers searchable database access to almost 11,000 manuscript illuminations (miniatures, initials, and border decorations) from the National.