Edward Shawe-Taylor

Edward Shawe-Taylor is a doctoral researcher at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford and the Assistant Database Manager of the Invisible East Project. His research focuses on the evolution of scripts in the medieval Islamic world, particularly their role in articulating political authority. His work examines the visual importance of chancery scripts as vehicles of political power, exploring how these symbols of authority were formalised and disseminated through chancery traditions across the Islamic world, and how they migrated into other artistic media such as textiles, woodwork, metalwork, and architectural decoration.