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Alixe Bovey

Alixe Bovey
Born1974 (1974)
Known forart historian

Alixe Bovey FSA (born 1974) is a Canadian medieval art historian and Dean and Deputy Director at the Courtauld Institute of Art, a college of the University of London.[1][2] Her research has been chiefly concerned with pictorial narratives and their cultural and literary context. She has also written on medieval monsters.

In 2008, Bovey presented the BBC television series In Search of Medieval Britain,[3][4] in which she retraced a series of journeys through Britain in the Middle Ages using the Gough Map.[5][6][7]

Academic career

Bovey studied history and medieval studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. She was awarded an MA and PhD in History of Art at the Courtauld in London.[8] Bovey worked as a curator in the British Library’s Department of Manuscripts for four years following her PhD.[8][2] She was a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in Medieval History in the University of Kent's School of History.[2]

Bovey rejoined the Courtauld as Head of Research and Senior Lecturer in Medieval History of Art in 2015.[9][10] She was appointed Dean and Deputy Director in November 2020.[10][2]

The Society of Antiquaries of London elected Bovey as a Fellow in 2013.[11] Bovey was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in 2014, providing financial support for her project Giants in the City: Mythic History as Material Culture in London from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century'.

She currently serves on the Editorial and Advisory Board of the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes.[12] She is a Member of the Fabric Advisory Committee of Canterbury Cathedral and is a Trustee of the Association for Art History.[2][13]

Selected publications

  • (2002) Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts, The British Library Publishing Division
  • (2005) The Chaworth Roll: A Fourteenth-Century Genealogy of the Kings of England, Sam Fogg Rare Books
  • (2005) The Tacuinum Sanitatis: An Early Renaissance Guide to Health, Sam Fogg Rare Books
  • (2013) Medieval Art, Architecture & Archaeology at Canterbury , Routledge

References

  1. ^ Alixe Bovey at the Courtauld Institute of Art, accessed Feb 2016
  2. ^ a b c d e "New Dean for the Courtauld Institute of Art". The Courtauld Institute of Art. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  3. ^ "In Search of Medieval Britain". IMDb.
  4. ^ "In Search of Medieval Britain - S1 - Episode 3: London & South East". Radio Times. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  5. ^ Alixe Bovey at University of Kent, accessed Feb 2016
  6. ^ BBC In Search of Medieval Britain, accessed Oct 2010
  7. ^ Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Gough Map plays its part in search for Medieval Britain, accessed Oct 2010
  8. ^ a b "Careers in Art – featuring Maria Balshaw, Alixe Bovey and Clara Drummond – Newnham College". www.newn.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  9. ^ "The Courtauld Gallery, London | Art at Home | TOAST Magazine". www.toa.st. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Movers and Shakers November 2020". Dixon Walter. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  11. ^ "Dr Alixe Bovey". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  12. ^ "Editors and Advisory Board members". The Warburg Institute. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  13. ^ "Trustees – For Art History". Retrieved 19 February 2021.


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