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The twenty-eight essays in this collection showcase cutting-edge research in manuscript studies, encompassing material from late antiquity to the Renaissance. The volume celebrates the exceptional contribution of John Lowden to the study of medieval books. The authors explore some of the themes and questions raised in John's work, tackling issues of meaning, making, patronage, the book as an object, relationships between text and image, and the transmission of ideas. They combine John's commitment to the close scrutiny of manuscripts with an interrogation of what the books meant in their own time and what they mean to us now.

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Author:   Laura Cleaver ,  Alixe Bovey ,  Lucy Donkin
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   79
Weight:   1.093kg
ISBN:  

9789004422322

ISBN 10:   9004422323
Pages:   482
Publication Date:   23 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction 1 Were Early Medieval Picture Cycles Recycled from Late Antiquity? New Evidence for a Lost Archetype of the Apollonius Pictus-An Illustrated Classic Michelle P. Brown 2 Milanese Early Medieval Psalters: Models and Influences from West and East Francesca Demarchi 3 Noli me tangerein the Codex Egberti (Reichenau,c.977-93) and in the Gospel Book of Otto III (Reichenau, 998-1000): Visual Exegesis in Context Barbara Baert 4 The Green Tinted Souls of Dives and Lazarus in the Codex Aureus of Echternach Maria R. Grasso 5 Portraits of Terence, the African Beatrice Radden Keefe 6 Manuscripts Face to Face: Leon and the Holy Roman Empire in the Mid-Eleventh Century Rose Walker 7 The Two Pictures Cycles in Early Manuscripts of St Anselm's Prayers T.A. Heslop 8 Early Cistercian Manuscripts from Clairvaux Kathleen Doyle 9 The Imagery of Noah's Ark in the Mosaic Decoration of Monreale Cathedral Mika Takiguchi 10 Some Observations on the Artists of the Leiden Psalter (Leiden, University Library MS B.P.L. 76A) and Their Working Practices Emma Luker 11 A Portrait of Abraham Ibn Ezra (Paris, Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal MS 1186) Patricia Stirnemann and Judith Kogel 12 The Virgin and Child in the Map Psalter (London, British Library Additional MS 28681) Sally Dormer 13 Seeing and Reading the Matthew Paris Saints' Lives Martin Kauffmann 14 Extended Shelf-life: Manuscript Consolidation in an English Monastic Library Kathryn Gerry 15 Domesday in Disguise Jessica Berenbeim 16 From Warwickshire to New York via Canterbury: The Travels and Tribulations of the Bible of Richard of Sholdone Frederica Law-Turner 17 Virgin, Devil, Bishop, King: Nicola Pisano's Pulpit in Siena and Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria Deirdre Jackson 18 Of Venerable Teachers and Boisterous Students: Maistre Brunetto and the Arabic Aristotle Hanna Wimmer 19 Lost and Found in the Meditationes Vitae Christi, Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 410 Renana Bartal 20 Ivory Booklets, Devotion in Cologne Sarah M. Guerin 21 Gothic Ivories Unhinged Catherine Yvard 22 Monks and Ants in the Presence of Death. A Re-reading of Pliny the Elder in Quattrocento Illumination Christian Heck 23 The Ridware Cartulary and the Great Seal of England Julian Luxford 24 Sin and Salvation in the Hours of Jean de Dunois Richard Gameson 25 Harreteau and His Unfinished Book of Hours Rowan Watson 26 Looking Beneath the Surface: Subterranean Space in the Kunta Hora Cantional Lucy Donkin 27 A Manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio'sDe Mulieribus Claris from the Library of the Benedictine Convent of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore in Milan? Anne-Marie Eze 28 Bloodlines: Medicine and Cosmology in France, China, and Mexico Jack Hartnell Index of manuscripts General index

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Laura Cleaver, Ph.D. (2008), University of London, is Ussher Lecturer in Medieval Art at Trinity College Dublin. Her most recent monograph is Illuminated History Books in the Anglo-Norman World, 1066-1272 (Oxford, 2018). Alixe Bovey, Ph.D. (2000), University of London, is Head of Research at The Courtauld Institute of Art. She has published widely on medieval manuscripts and is currently working on a project on giants. Lucy Donkin, Ph.D. (2005), University of London, is a lecturer in History and History of Art at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on sacred space, and she is co-editor of Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West (Oxford, 2012).

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