The Art of the Book Its Place in Medieval Worship

by Manion, Margaret M.; Muir, Bernard J.

• ISBN13: 9780859895668
• ISBN10: 0859895661
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

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 this title will be of wide interest to scholars in many different fields. University of Exeter Press 1998, reprint 2007.

Author Biography

Margaret M. Manion is professor emeritus in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne. Her publications include a facsimile edition of The Wharncliffe Hours and Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts in Australian Collections (with Vera F. Vines). Bernard J. Muir is a reader in medieval language and literature in the English Department at the University of Melbourne. His publications include A Pre-Conquest English Prayerbook, and The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry, the latter also published by the University of Exeter Press.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	vii	(1)
ABBREVIATIONS	viii	(1)
LIST OF PLATES AND FIGURES	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
Margaret M. Manion
1 The Early Insular Prayer Book Tradition and the Development of the Book of Hours	9	(12)
Bernard J. Muir
2 Women, Art and Devotion: Three French Fourteenth-Century Royal Prayer Books	21	(46)
Margaret M. Manion
3 Books for a Dominican Nuns' Choir: Illustrated Liturgical Manuscripts at Saint-Louis de Poissy, c.1330-1350	67	(44)
Joan Naughton
4 The Illustrated Office of the Passion in Italian Books of Hours	111	(42)
Bronwyn C. Stocks
5 An Unusual Image of the Assumption in a Fourteenth-Century Dominican Choir-Book	153	(10)
Margaret M. Manion
6 The Dominican Liturgy of the Assumption: Texts and Music for the Divine Office	163	(32)
John Stinson
7 A Centre for Devotional and Liturgical Manuscript Illumination in Fifteenth-Century Besancon	195	(30)
Vera F. Vines
8 The Master of Jacques de Besancon and a Fifteenth-Century Parisian Missal	225	(28)
Hilary Maddocks
9 Marginalized Jewels: The Depiction of Jewellery in the Borders of Flemish Devotional Manuscripts	253	(38)
Kate Challis
10 Devotional Objects in Book Format: Diptychs in the Collection of Margaret of Austria and her Family	291	(34)
Dagmar Eichberger
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS	325	(2)
INDEX	327