Tachau

Katherine Tachau is Professor of History at the University of Iowa, where she has taught since 1985. Her interests in medieval history span the fields of science, religion, and art. She is the author of an award-winning book on the medieval science of optics, Vision and Certitude in the Age of Ockham: Optics, Epistemology, and the Foundations of Semantics, 1250–1345 (1988). Her recent work on the Bibles Moralisées, the most extensively illustrated of all medieval illuminated manuscripts, is embodied in a forthcoming book to be titled Bible Lessons for Kings: Scholars and Friars in Thirteenth-Century Paris and the Creation of the Bibles Moralisées. Professor Tachau has received Fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.