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Alixe Bovey
Canadian art historian (born )
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Alixe Bovey FSA (born ) is a Canadian medieval art historian and Dean and Deputy Director at the Courtauld Institute of Art, a college of the University of London.[1][2] Her research has been chiefly concerned with pictorial narratives and their cultural and literary context.
She has also written on medieval monsters.
In , Bovey presented the BBC television series In Search of Medieval Britain,[3][4] in which she retraced a series of journeys through Britain in the Middle Ages using the Gough Map.[5][6][7]
Academic career
Bovey studied history and medieval studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
She was awarded an MA and PhD in History of Art at the Courtauld in London.[8] Bovey worked as a curator in the British Library’s Department of Manuscripts for four years f