Reading Texts and Images
Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage
Will be published approx. on 2. July 2002
Book
Hardback
366 pages
978-0-85989-713-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 Bernard J. Muir. The contributors are writing on their particular area of manuscript study, with the Wharncliffe Hours and the Book of Kells among the important manuscripts discussed. Their essays are written in honour of Margaret M. Manion, Professor Emeritus, Department of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne. Margaret Manion has an international reputation for her work in the field of art history. Her many publications include a facsimile edition of The Wharncliffe Hours (Thames & Hudson) and Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts in Australian Collections (with Vera F. Vines, Thames & Hudson).
Reviews / Votes
... this is a magnificent feast of a volume, handsomely printed on coated paper and lavishly illustrated. The colour printing is of very high quality, doing ample justice not only to the reproductions of medieval images but also to the striking painting... Given the physical beauty of Reading Texts and Images, it is a pleasure to record that the scholarly essays within it are also of the highest quality. The contributors ... include some of the best-known names in the field of medieval manuscript studies. * Bulletin of International Medieval Research, no. 11 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Liverpool University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 249 mm
Width: 184 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85989-713-6 (9780859897136)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Bernard Muir is Reader in Medieval Language and Literature in the English Department, University of Melbourne. His publications include The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry (Exeter) and A Pre-Conquest English Prayerbook (Boydell).
Content
Contents
Margaret Beaufort's Italian Manuscript of the Name of Christ Devotions, Janet Backhouse
The Dance of Death in Art - Visual Representations of Men, Women and Children in Renaissance Society, Dagmar Eichberger
Towards Interpreting the Iconography of the Gospel of St Luke in the Book of Kells, Bernard Muir
The River of Life in the Apse Mosaics of S. Maria Maggiore in Rome, Joan Barclay-Lloyd
A Scribe and a Prayerbook - a New Approach to the Wharncliffe Hours, Thomas Kren
The Illustration of the Psalms in Fourteenth-Century English Manuscripts - The Case of the Bohun Family Psalters, Lucy Freeman Sandler
The Rimini Antiphonal - palimpsest music and Renaissance liturgical practice, John Stinson
Reading the Body of a Plague Saint - Narrative Altarpieces and Devotional Images of St. Sebastian in Renaissance Art, Louise Marshall
Minor Manuscript-Decoration from the West of England in the Twelfth Century, Rodney Thomson
Patrons and Devotional Images in English Illuminated Manuscripts of the International Gothic, Nigel Morgan
New Observations on the Dutch Bible (c.1419) in Auckland Public Library, Christopher de Hamel
Sacred and secular in the Wharncliffe Hours, Jonathan Alexander.
Margaret Beaufort's Italian Manuscript of the Name of Christ Devotions, Janet Backhouse
The Dance of Death in Art - Visual Representations of Men, Women and Children in Renaissance Society, Dagmar Eichberger
Towards Interpreting the Iconography of the Gospel of St Luke in the Book of Kells, Bernard Muir
The River of Life in the Apse Mosaics of S. Maria Maggiore in Rome, Joan Barclay-Lloyd
A Scribe and a Prayerbook - a New Approach to the Wharncliffe Hours, Thomas Kren
The Illustration of the Psalms in Fourteenth-Century English Manuscripts - The Case of the Bohun Family Psalters, Lucy Freeman Sandler
The Rimini Antiphonal - palimpsest music and Renaissance liturgical practice, John Stinson
Reading the Body of a Plague Saint - Narrative Altarpieces and Devotional Images of St. Sebastian in Renaissance Art, Louise Marshall
Minor Manuscript-Decoration from the West of England in the Twelfth Century, Rodney Thomson
Patrons and Devotional Images in English Illuminated Manuscripts of the International Gothic, Nigel Morgan
New Observations on the Dutch Bible (c.1419) in Auckland Public Library, Christopher de Hamel
Sacred and secular in the Wharncliffe Hours, Jonathan Alexander.