Making the Book of Kells

Abstract

This article gives a brief history of the context of the Book of Kells before summarising recent research into its material makeup. It then goes on to introduce a possible site of production that has been excavated in the Scottish Highlands, before introducing a project to recreate a folio from the manuscript as an experimental archaeology project.

Keywords

• book
• (re)construction
• painting
• early middle ages
• ireland