Michelle P. Brown

Michelle P. Brown (born 1 October 1959) is professor emerita of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She was previously (1986–2004) Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library. She has been a historical consultant and on-screen expert on several radio and television programmes. She has published books on Bede, the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Luttrell Psalter and the Holkham Bible.

Brown held the Sandars Readership in Bibliography in 2008–2009, speaking on "The book and the transformation of Britain, c. 550–1050".

Books As author A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600. British Library & Toronto University Press: London & Toronto, 1990; rev. ed. 1994; 1999. The Word and the Shaping of Cornwall before the Reformation. Francis Bootle: London, 2021 Bede and the Theory of Everything. Reaktion Books, 2021

As Michelle Treeve

Eadfrith: Scribe of Lindisfarne. Bagwyn Books, 2014

As editor J. Bately, M. P. Brown and J. Roberts, eds, A Palaeographer's View: Selected Writings of Julian Brown. Harvey Miller: London, 1991. M. P. Brown and L. Webster, eds, The Transformation of the Roman World. British Museum Press: London, 1997. M. P. Brown and S. McKendrick, eds, The Illuminated Book in the Later Middle Ages. Studies in Honour of Janet Backhouse. British Library & Toronto University Press: London & Toronto, 1997. M. P. Brown and C. Farr, eds, Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe. Leicester University Press: Leicester, 2001. M. P. Brown and R. J. Kelly, eds, You're History: How People Make the Difference. Continuum: London, 2006. M. P. Brown, ed., In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000. Smithsonian Institution: Washington DC, 2006. Graphic Devices and the Early Decorated Book (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture, 11). Boydell, 2017