| ISBN |
2503532128 (hbk.) |
| 9782503532127 (hbk.) |
| Title |
The social life of illumination : manuscripts, images, and communities in the late Middle Ages / edited by Joyce Coleman, Mark Cruse, and Kathryn A. Smith |
| Publisher |
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2013 |
| Physical desc. |
xxiv, 552 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe 21 |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction. The social life of illumination / Joyce Coleman, Mark Cruse, and Kathryn A. Smith -- Pt. 1: Spiritual community. The social life of a manuscript metaphor: Christ's blood as ink / Marlene Villalobos Hennessy -- Communion and community: eucharistic narratives and their audience in the Smithfield decretals / Alixe Bovey -- Worded and wordless images: biblical narratives in the Psalters of Humphrey de Bohun / Lucy Freeman Sandler -- A 'viewing community' in fourteenth-century England / Kathryn A. Smith -- Jean Germain's Debat du crestien et du sarrasin: illumination between multi-confessional debate and anti-conciliarism / David Joseph Wrisley -- 'Ces mots icy verrez juer': performative presence and social life in the Arras Passion manuscript / Robert L.A. Clark and Pamela Sheingorn -- Anthoine Vérard's illuminated playscript of La vengeance nostre seigneur: marketing plays and creating the king's image / Laura Weigert -- Pt. 2: Social and political community. Visualizing morality in the manuscripts of Marie de France's Isopet / Logan E. Whalen -- Angels on the Right Bank: the celestial ladder over Paris in BnF, MS fr. 146 / Nancy Freeman Regalado -- Performing documents and documenting performance in the Procès de Robert d'Artois (BnF, MS fr. 18437) and Charles V's Grandes chroniques de France (BnF, MS fr. 2813) / Anne D. Hedeman -- Pictorial polyphony: image, voice, and social life in the Roman d'Alexandre (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264) / Mark Cruse -- The first presentation miniature in an English-language manuscript / Joyce Coleman -- From print to script: the luxury metatext of Lambeth Palace Library, MS 265 / Dhira B. Mahoney -- To have and to hold: marriage, politics, and iconography in the prayer book of Margaret Tudor / Elizabeth Morrison -- The book of hours as album amicorum: Jane Guildford's book / Mary Erler. |
| Subject |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, European |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Social aspects |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts -- History |
| Literature and society -- Europe, Northern |
| Civilization, Medieval |
| Added name(s) |
Coleman, Joyce ed. |
| Cruse, Mark ed. |
| Smith, Kathryn A. (Kathryn Ann) ed. |
