
Literature and Devotion in Later Medieval England
A selection of manuscripts from Durham University Library
Richard Gameson(Autor*in)
Sacristy Press
Erschienen am 1. November 2021
Buch
Softcover
100 Seiten
978-1-78959-185-9 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Embracing poetic and prose writings on philosophy, contemplation and bibliophily, key service books for the clergy, and devotional texts for the laity, this book explores the interrelated themes of literature and devotion in England from the Black Death to the Reformation as seen through the lens of twenty-six precious manuscripts in Durham University Library.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Durham
Großbritannien
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Broschur/Paperback
Illustrationen
28 Plates, color
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 8 mm
Gewicht
233 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78959-185-9 (9781789591859)
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Literature and Devotion in Later Medieval England
A selection of manuscripts from Durham University Library
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Richard Gameson is Professor of the History of the Book at Durham University. He has published more than 100 studies of medieval manuscripts, book collections and art, including The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain I, c. 400-1100 (2012), The Lindisfarne Gospels, new perspectives (2017), and The Medieval Manuscripts of Trinity College, Oxford, a descriptive catalogue (2018). He is currently cataloguing the manuscripts of Durham Cathedral and, in collaboration with chemist colleagues, writing the first-ever history of British illuminators' pigments.