Perette E MichelliDr. Michelli is a multi-disciplinary historian of medieval and later art, with a particular focus on the treatment and function of inscriptions. Her understanding of the medieval deployment of classical aesthetics generated a special interest in the se of visually distinctive script styles of greater or lesser legibility, textual traditions that perpetuate mistakes and scribal errors, and inscriptions that seem to lack purpose or information, or do not apparently make sense, or that seem to include errors, flaws, or meaningless components. Her current focus of interest concerns the "benedictory" inscriptions on medieval Islamic Read More Read Less