This collection of articles, by scholars with established reputations in the field, focuses on medieval books designed for use in Christian worship, both public and private. Examples are drawn from French, Italian and Dutch work of the fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. The contributors explore the various ways in which text and imagery complement and re-enforce one another, and the importance of music and chant is also addressed. The interdisciplinary focus ensures that it will be of wide interest to scholars in ...
Read More
This collection of articles, by scholars with established reputations in the field, focuses on medieval books designed for use in Christian worship, both public and private. Examples are drawn from French, Italian and Dutch work of the fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. The contributors explore the various ways in which text and imagery complement and re-enforce one another, and the importance of music and chant is also addressed. The interdisciplinary focus ensures that it will be of wide interest to scholars in many different fields. This is a work of original contributions by scholars with established reputations in the field; no other volume deals with the same material. Much of the visual material has been previously unpublished or inaccessible.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good in good dust jacket. Pencil markings. Lightly done and erasable. Jacket has small tears and edge wear at the tips and spine ends. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Contains: Illustrations. Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies. Audience: General/trade.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Like New. First edition copy. Collectible-Like New. Like New dust jacket. (liturgics, illustrated books, Christian art and symbolism, books of hours, prayer books) [ISBN 0859895661]
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Small 4to. Cloth, hard cover in dust jacket., small owner signature and date to corner of front free endpaper. very small closed edge-tear to dj back panel. book has truly minor skew if you sight down fore-edge. easily remedied by proper storage. no other flaws. clean, no text or exterior markings. strong binding despite above.; english text.; xvi-8pp. color plates-337pp., 98 b/w plates/figures. 10 essays by various contributors.