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Elizabeth Parker McLachlan

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]

Biography edit

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]

Publications edit

  • McLachlan, Elizabeth Parker. The Scriptorium of Bury St Edmunds in the Twelfth Century, New York, Garland Publishing (1986). This book is recommended by Alison Ray as part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project, a collaborative project by the British Library and Bibliothèque nationale de France.[16]
  • McLachlan, Elizabeth Parker. ‘Liturgical vessels and implements’, in Liturgy of the medieval church : Kalamazoo, The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages, published by the Medieval Institute of the Western Michigan University (2001)
  • St. Clair, Archer & McLachlan, Elizabeth Parker. The Carver's Art: Medieval Sculpture in Ivory, Bone, and Horn, Rutgers Univ Zimmerli Art Museum (September 1989)
  • McLachlan, Elizabeth Parker, 'In the Wake of the Bury Bible: Followers of Master Hugo at Bury St. Edmunds', in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 42 (1979), pp. 216–224, published by The Warburg Institute, DOI: 10.2307/751094[17]
  • McLachlan, Elizabeth Parker, Szarmach, Paul E, Tavormina, Teresa, Rosenthal, Joel, Karkov, Catherine and Lefferts, Peter, edited by, Medieval England: An Encyclopedia. [13]
  • McLachlan, Elizabeth Parker, Thurlby, Malcom and Little, Charles T., 'Romanesque Reassembled in England: A Review', Gesta 24, no.1 (1985), pp. 77–86[18]

Personal life edit

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

References edit

  1. ^ "McLachlan, Elizabeth Parker 1938-". WorldCat Identities.
  2. ^ "News and Notes from TEAMS: October 1996". www.calvin.edu. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  3. ^ Dugan, H. (1 April 2008). "Scent of a Woman: Performing the Politics of Smell in Late Medieval and Early Modern England". Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 38 (2): 250. doi:10.1215/10829636-2007-025. ISSN 1082-9636.
  4. ^ a b "James McLachlan, In Memoriam". Historians.org.
  5. ^ "James McLachlan, Obituary". News Observer.
  6. ^ a b McLachlan, Elizabeth Parker (1986). The Scriptorium of Bury St Edmunds in the Twelfth Century. Garland.
  7. ^ Gerry, Kathryn (2014). "Picturing Narrative and Promoting Cult". Matter of Faith: An Interdisciplinary Study of Relics and Relic Veneration in the Medieval Period (PDF). British Museum. p. 51.
  8. ^ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 30 June 2020. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  9. ^ "Newsletter 1999". Arthistory.rutgers.edu.
  10. ^ "Officers, Associates and Volunteers". Manuscript Evidence.
  11. ^ Blodgett, E. D. The Romance of Flamenca.
  12. ^ Latini, Holloway, Brunetto, Cynthia (1981). Il Tesoretto. New York: Garland Publishing.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ a b 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)

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