Michelle P. Brown, Illumino: A History of Medieval Britain in Twelve Illuminated Manuscripts. London: Reaktion, 2025, 320 pp.

A golden volume, splendidly illustrated and by a former British Library keeper of manuscripts, leads us with the aid of twelve books from the Age of Bede to the Age of Henry VIII. It is a novel and engaging approach, making a History of Britain out of a History of the Book in Britain.