Buettner wrote her dissertation on an early 15th-century French illuminated manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio’s On Famous Women (published as a College Art Association monograph in 1996). After writing ...

What it is: An illuminated manuscript ... In the early 800s, the monks on Iona relocated to Ireland to avoid such attacks — and they took the manuscript with them. It was then housed for ...

Yet, in this documentary he decides to explore the origins and evolution of early Irish Christianity ... people who lived then and created illuminated manuscripts some of whom lived in isolation ...