Guest Blog - Translating the Past: History & its Images in Late-Medieval Scotland  - Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Guest Blog - Translating the Past: History & its Images in Late-Medieval Scotland  - Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

‘For when one sees a story illustrated whether of Troy or of something else, he sees the actions of the worthy men that lived in those times, just as though they were present.‘ Richard de Fournival, Le Bestiare d’amours. The illustration of manuscripts containing historical material offers important insights into late-medieval historical understanding and the conception of a collective identity or idea of nationhood. The role that images played …