The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0859895661 ISBN 13: 9780859895668

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 1998

Synopsis

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 Much of the visual material has been previously unpublished or inaccessible.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret 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 (Thames & Hudson); Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts in Australian Collections (with Vera F. Vines) (Thames & Hudson); Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand (with Vera F. Vines and C. de Hamel). Bernard Muir is Reader in Medieval Language and Literature in the English Department at the University of Melbourne. His publications include The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry (Exeter); A Pre-Conquest English Prayerbook (Boydell).

Review:

"The authors have been well served by the publishers, who have produced an attractively presented text with a generous selection of illustrations."--The Library

"Of serious value to all concerned with the arts as inspiration and servant of religion, especially in the late Middle Ages."--Theology

"The oldest manuscripts dealt with are of the early fourteenth century, the latest of the early sixteenth, and the geographical spread is from Italy to the Netherlands. But all are interesting, and the book, edited by Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir, is well presented and handsomely illustrated."--TLS

"A well-produced book. Not the least of its delights are the excellent eight colour and ninety-eight black-and-white plates, which put the poorly-printed and over-priced offerings of older university presses to shame."--The Ricardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0859895661
• ISBN 13: 9780859895668
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Muir Bernard J., Manion Margaret M.