Cover of Mo Pareles’ book, Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English The cover features, on the left side, a detail from Gustav Klimt’s painting Judith and Holofernes, depicting a black-haired woman with her eyes closed, partially nude, wearing gold clothing and jewelry, holding in her hands the decapitated head of a man (partially visible); and on the right side, the book’s title on a yellow background.

Cover of Siân Echard’s book, Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts. The cover features a capital F, decorated in the style of Insular manuscripts, set against a background of a piece of parchment; the title and the author’s name appear on a white background.

Close-up of a page from a medieval manuscript containing Latin text written in book minuscule.

Left: Detail from the painting The Embarkation of Henry VIII at Dover, depicting a 16th-century caravel near a pier, with several men on the pier, others in a rowboat between the pier and the caravel, and a second rowboat near the caravel, from which men are climbing onto the ship’s deck. Other caravels can be seen in the background. On the right: photograph of a young woman wearing a blue and white wool sweater.

An illustration from a medieval manuscript showing two men sitting on a bench, blowing trumpets from which small pennants hang.