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Reading texts and images : essays on medieval and Renaissance art and patronage in honour of Margaret M. Manion / edited by Bernard J. Muir.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Exeter, UK : University of Exeter Press, 2002.Description: xxv, 337 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0859897133
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Contents:
'Waiting for the Revolution' ; Triad for Margaret Manion / Peter Steele -- Genealogy of Christ and the decoration of folio 188 of the Book of Kells / Bernard J. Muir -- Minor manuscript decoration from the west of England in the twelfth century / Rodney Thomson -- River of life in the medieval mosaics of S Maria Maggiore in Rome / Joan E. Barclay Lloyd -- Rimini Antiphonal : palimpsest music and Renaissance liturgical practice / John Stinson -- Patrons and devotional images in English art of the international Gothic c.1350-1450 / Nigel Morgan -- Illustration of the Psalms in fourteenth-century English manuscripts : three psalters of the Bohun family / Lucy Freeman Sandler -- Pink elephants in Brussels / Christopher de Hamel -- Seven illuminated Books of Hours written by the Parisian scribe Jean Dubreuil, c.1475-1485 / Thomas Kren -- Chastity, love and marriage in the margins of the Wharncliffe Hours / Jonathan J.G. Alexander -- Further illuminated devotional book for the use of Lady Margaret Beaufort / Janet Backhouse -- Reading the body of a plague saint : narrative altarpieces and devotional images of St Sebastian in Renaissance art / Louise Marshall -- Close encounters with death : changing representations of women in Renaissance art and literature / Dagmar Eichberger -- Eighteenth-century classicist's medievalism : the case of Charles Townley / Gerard Vaughan.
Summary: This book is a collection of specially-commissioned art-historical essays on the theme of manuscript studies by some of the world's leading art historians and curators of manuscripts. It is expected to be even more successful and well-received than the comparable volume from University of Exeter Press, The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship, edited by Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

'Waiting for the Revolution' ; Triad for Margaret Manion / Peter Steele -- Genealogy of Christ and the decoration of folio 188 of the Book of Kells / Bernard J. Muir -- Minor manuscript decoration from the west of England in the twelfth century / Rodney Thomson -- River of life in the medieval mosaics of S Maria Maggiore in Rome / Joan E. Barclay Lloyd -- Rimini Antiphonal : palimpsest music and Renaissance liturgical practice / John Stinson -- Patrons and devotional images in English art of the international Gothic c.1350-1450 / Nigel Morgan -- Illustration of the Psalms in fourteenth-century English manuscripts : three psalters of the Bohun family / Lucy Freeman Sandler -- Pink elephants in Brussels / Christopher de Hamel -- Seven illuminated Books of Hours written by the Parisian scribe Jean Dubreuil, c.1475-1485 / Thomas Kren -- Chastity, love and marriage in the margins of the Wharncliffe Hours / Jonathan J.G. Alexander -- Further illuminated devotional book for the use of Lady Margaret Beaufort / Janet Backhouse -- Reading the body of a plague saint : narrative altarpieces and devotional images of St Sebastian in Renaissance art / Louise Marshall -- Close encounters with death : changing representations of women in Renaissance art and literature / Dagmar Eichberger -- Eighteenth-century classicist's medievalism : the case of Charles Townley / Gerard Vaughan.

This book is a collection of specially-commissioned art-historical essays on the theme of manuscript studies by some of the world's leading art historians and curators of manuscripts. It is expected to be even more successful and well-received than the comparable volume from University of Exeter Press, The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship, edited by Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir.