A companion to the prize-winning exhibition catalogue Illuminating the The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, edited by Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick (2003), this volume contains thirteen selected papers presented at two conferences held in conjunction with the exhibition.

Chapters include Lorne Campbell's research into Rogier van der Weyden's work as an illuminator, Nancy Turner's investigation of materials and methods of painting in Flemish manuscripts, and trenchant commentary by Jonathan Alexander and James Marrow on the state of current research on Flemish illumination. Although topics are wide ranging, one recurring theme is the structure of collaboration in manuscript production. Essays uncover an important new patron of manuscript illumination and address the role of illuminated manuscripts at the Burgundian court along with the contributions of individual illuminators. A series of biographies of Burgundian scribes is also included.

Aram Yardumian is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bryn Athyn College in Pennsylvania, USA.  He is the author of The Peopling of the Caucasus (Cambridge University Press, 2025) as well as several books on musicology, Listen (Errant Bodies, 2022), Persepolis (Bloomsbury, 2023), and Mesostructures (4th Dimension, forthcoming 2025).

Born in Kalmar in 1959, Tommie Haglund is a Swedish composer whose music has been praised for its "absolute honesty" and its being "the confession of a naked soul." Haglund studied classical guitar with John Mills in London from 1981-83, then at the Royal Academy of Music at Århus from 1983-85 but left without a degree to pursue composition full time. It was Mills who first introduced Haglund to the music of Frederick Delius, whose influence led to a meeting with Delius’ amanuensis, Eric Fenby, with whom Haglund later studied. He also studied composition with Sven-Eric Johanson from 1989-91. Haglund’s major works include Intensio Animi (commissioned by the Swedenborg Society to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Emanuel Swedenborg’s birth); Flaminis Aura; Hymnen An Die Nacht; and Symphony. Haglund has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Stora Christ Johnson Prize and the HMK’s medal for "significant contributions to Swedish music."  In 2013, a documentary about Haglund's life and work, Själens Musik, was broadcast on Swedish TV. The Tommie Haglund Festival, a biannual international classical music gala in Halmstad, is held in his honor.