Rachel Moss (art historian)

Dr. Rachel Moss is an Irish art historian and professor specialising in medieval art, with a particular interest in Insular art, medieval Irish Gospel books and monastic history. She is the current head of the Department of the History of Art at Trinity College Dublin, where she became a fellow in 2022. and a former president of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.

Moss has written extensively on Insular art, including on its iconography, materials, methods and political and cultural settings. Her work includes detailed examinations of Irish round towers, high crosses, psalters, Celtic broochs, chalicees and house-shaped and other reliquary shrines, with a close focus on illuminated manuscripts such as the Book of Durrow (c. 700 AD), the Stowe Missal (after 792 AD), and Book of Mulling (late 8th or early 9th century).