The Art of the Book
Its Place in Medieval Worship
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
240 pages
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9 colour plates, 96 black and white ills
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9-3/5 x 6-7/10
This collection of articles, by scholars with established reputations in the field, focuses on medieval books designed for use in Christian worship, both public and private. Examples are drawn from French, Italian and Dutch work of the fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. The contributors explore the various ways in which text and imagery complement and re-enforce one another, and the importance of music and chant is also addressed. The interdisciplinary focus ensures that it will be of wide interest to scholars in many different fields.
This is a work of original contributions by scholars with established reputations in the field; no other volume deals with the same material. Much of the visual material has been previously unpublished or inaccessible.
The Ricardian
“The University of Exeter Press is to be congratulated on having published such a well-produced book. Not the least of its delights are the excellent eight colour and ninety-eight black-and-white plates, which put the poorly-printed and over-priced offerings of older university presses to shame.” –The Ricardian, Vol. 12, No. 153, June 2001
The Library
“The authors have been well served by the publishers, who have produced an attractively presented text with a generous selection of illustrations.” –The Library, 2I.3, September 1999
TLS
“...the oldest manuscripts dealt with are of the early fourteenth century, the latest of the early sixteenth, and the geographical spread is from Italy to the Netherlands...But all are interesting, and the book, edited by Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir, is well presented and handsomely illustrated.” –TLS, February 26 1999
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Plates and Figures
Introduction by Margaret M. Manion
1. The Early Insular Prayer Book Tradition and the Development of the Book of Hours by Bernard J. Muir
2. Women, Art and Devotion: Three French Fourteenth-Century Royal Prayer Books by Margaret M. Manion
3. Books for a Dominican Nuns' Choir: Illustrated Liturgical Manuscripts at Saint-Louis de Poissy, c.1330-1350 by Joan Naughton
4. The Illustrated Office of the Passion in Italian Books of Hours by Bronwyn C. Stocks
5. An Unusual Image of the Assumption in a Fourteenth-Century Dominican Choir-Book by Margaret M. Manion
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