During the first eight weeks of the term, students in Professor Bill North’s Early Medieval Worlds course researched, designed, and set up an exhibit on manuscripts from Early Medieval Europe. The exhibit, Process of Illumination: Word, Image, and the Scribal Imagination in the Middle Ages, displays a collection of facsimiles of medieval manuscripts from Carleton’s Special Collections. The ten manuscripts on display, from the 6th to 11th century, range from illustrated gospels and psalms to an instruction manual for monks to an encyclopedia of natural history.  Small groups of students were responsible for the research and set-up of each manuscript, while other groups made wall-cards and a timeline to orient viewers and designed posters and publicized the event. Another group travelled to Prairie Creek Elementary School to educate fourth graders about medieval manuscripts; the fourth grade class then came to Carleton to see the manuscripts. Please also visit: Carletonian Fall Issue 8 (Nov 14, 2014), Student Projects Shed Light on the Dark Ages, by Olivia Williams.

The exhibit is on display in the front room of the Gould Library by the circulation desks, and will be up through January 5th.