Elizabeth Parker McLachlan

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Elizabeth Parker McLachlan (born 1938) is an American photographer, professor, writer and editor. She specialises in the Bury Bible, and the depiction of liturgical vessels such as censers, and the myrophores (Myrrhbearers) in medieval manuscript art. [1] [2] [3] She is a professor emerita of art history at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. [4] [5]

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Biography

McLachlan completed her PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1965. [6] Her thesis, titled The scriptorium of Bury St. Edmunds in the twelfth century, was published by Garland of New York. [6] An important contribution of Parker's thesis was to demonstrate, using codicology and art historical analysis, that the Life of St Edmund was a composite text. [7]

Photographs taken by McLachlan are held at the Courtauld's Conway Library of art and architecture, and are currently being digitised. [8]

McLachlan taught at the Rutgers University Art Department Summer Programme in Paris. [9] She is honorary associate of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence. [10] McLachlan was a member of the advisory board of the Garland Library of Medieval Literature, serving as art advisor. [11] [12]

She was editor for and contributor to Medieval England: an Encyclopedia (1998). [13] [14]

McLachlan was an early member of the Medieval Feminist Newsletter, now the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship. [15]

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Personal life

Elizabeth Parker McLachlan was married to the historian of education James McLachlan, who died in 2015. [4]

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  13. 1 2 Medieval England: an Encyclopedia. New York: Garland. 1998.
  14. McLachlan, Elizabeth Parker (2019). Medieval England,An Encyclopedia. Routledge.
  15. "Medieval Feminist Forum | Vol 2 | No. 1". scholarworks.wmich.edu. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  16. "Medieval Monastic Libraries". The British Library. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  17. McLachlan, Elizabeth Parker (1979). "Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 42: 216–224. doi:10.2307/751094. JSTOR   751094. S2CID   195052473.
  18. McLachlan, Thurlby, and Little, McLachlan, Elizabeth Parker, Malcom and Charles T. (1985). "Romanesque Reassembled in England: A Review". Gesta. 24 (1): 77–86. doi:10.2307/766934. JSTOR   766934. S2CID   193655461.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)