Dante: The Invention of Celebrity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781910807491)

Gervase Rosser is the Professor of the History of Art, Dept of Art History, Oxford University. He is also Fellow of St Catherine's College and Director of Ertegun House. He has published articles on Dante's own visual culture in The Oxford Handbook of Dante (OUP 2021) and in the journals Art History (2012) and Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics (2005); and on Geoff MacEwan's Dante series prints (represented in the exhibition and publication) in N. Havely, ed., Dante Beyond Borders (2021). Other articles in Apollo, Past and Present, Annales, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Gervase's first book, Medieval Westminster (OUP 1989) won the Whitfield Prize for 'the best work on a subject of British or Irish history published within the UK or the Republic of Ireland during the year'. Spectacular Miracles (with Jane Garnett) won the ACE (Art and Christianity Enquiry) Mercers International Book Award 2014: the prize is awarded 'for a book which makes an outstanding contribution to the dialog between the visual arts and religion'.