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“... when, later in the 15th century, illustrations become windows opening on scenes. In the catalogue, Paul Binski quotes ‘one of the most famous (and controversial) put-downs in the history of art’, by Erwin Panofsky: ‘It has been said that book illumination was killed by the invention of printing; but it had already begun to commit suicide by ...”

“... sacred and secular power, lies the whole meaning of the Abbey. It is also the subject matter of Paul Binski’s subtle, learned and absorbing book. The origins of the Abbey – to be precise, the Collegiate Church of St Peter in Westminster – are shrouded in uncertainty. A Saxon foundation on Thorney Island, the one dry spot in the fenland that once ...”

“... order – by means of careful technological description, albeit in images rather than text. As Paul Binski put it in Gothic Sculpture, to the medieval mind both ‘natural and crafted things’ were ‘fashioned from primary matter, the matter of the cosmos’. God is the master crafter, who, in the frontispiece of 13th-century Bibles ...”