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Back to the future: The Secret of Kells brings the past to life

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Lisabeth C Buchelt specialises in medieval and nineteenthcentury British and Irish literary and cultural studies and examines how a modern animation, The Secret of Kells, brings the medieval Irish landscape alive.

It’s tempting to think that our global, multimedia age is the most multicultural and visually literate in history. However, a new study by Lisabeth Buchelt, of the University of Nebraska—Omaha probes the relationship between a contemporary Irish animated film and the 1,200-year-old masterpiece of Celtic art that inspired it. She finds that the modern age is not the first to […]

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