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

by Muir, Bernard J.

• ISBN13: 9780859897136
• ISBN10: 0859897133
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

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).

Author Biography

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

Plates and Figures	ix
Acknowledgements	xvi
Introduction	xvii
Bernard J. Muir
Abbreviations	xxvi
`Waiting for the Revolution'	xxvii
Peter Steele
Essays
A Triad for Margaret Manion	1	(6)
Peter Steele
The Genealogy of Christ and the Decoration of Folio 188 of The Book of Kells	7	(12)
Bernard J. Muir
Minor Manuscript Decoration from the West of England in the Twelfth Century	19	(16)
Rodney Thomson
The River of Life in the Medieval Mosaics of S Maria Maggiore in Rome	35	(22)
Joan E. Barclay Lloyd
The Rimini Antiphonal: Palimpsest Music and Renaissance Liturgical Practice	57	(36)
John Stinson
Patrons and Devotional Images in English Art of the International Gothic c.1350--1450	93	(30)
Nigel Morgan
The Illustration of the Psalms in Fourteenth-Century English Manuscripts: Three Psalters of the Bohun Family	123	(30)
Lucy Freeman Sandler
Pink Elephants in Brussels	153	(4)
Christopher de Hamel
Seven Illuminated Books of Hours Written by the Parisian Scribe Jean Dubreuil, c.1475--1485	157	(44)
Thomas Kren
Chastity, Love and Marriage in the Margins of the Wharncliffe Hours	201	(20)
Jonathan J.G. Alexander
A Further Illuminated Devotional Book for the Use of Lady Margaret Beaufort	221	(16)
Janet Backhouse
Reading the Body of a Plague Saint: Narrative Altarpieces and Devotional Images of St Sebastian in Renaissance Art	237	(36)
Louise Marshall
Close Encounters with Death: Changing Representations of Women in Renaissance Art and Literature	273	(24)
Dagmar Eichberger
An Eighteenth-Century Classicist's Medievalism: The Case of Charles Townley	297	(18)
Gerard Vaughan
Publications	315	(4)
Margaret M. Manion
List of Contributors	319	(4)
Index of Manuscripts	323	(3)
General Index	326