Reading Texts and Images: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage

by Bernard J. Muir (Editor)

Overview

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. 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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780859897136
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	01/01/2002
Series:	Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies LUP
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	9.90(w) x 7.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of 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

Editorial Reviews

"... 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

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