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Publisher
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This scholarly, edited volume addresses decorated books from around the world produced during the period of 500 to 1500."--
"Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books--like today's museums-- preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone's place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. The idea for the book, which is entirely new, is to invite the reader into intimate conversations with twelve of the most famous manuscripts in existence and to explore with the author what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history -- and sometimes about the modern world too. Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with remarkable...