A history of illuminated manuscripts /
Illuminated manuscripts
Christopher De Hamel.
- Second edition, revised, enlarged and with new ill.
- 272 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-263) and index.
Introduction -- Books for Missionaries -- 7th-9th centuries: the written word as an essential tool for the early missionaries of Britain and Ireland, who produced books of extraordinary sophistication -- Books for Emperors -- 8th-11th centuries: books as treasure and as luxurious objects of display and diplomatic gifts in the courts of Charlemagne and his successors -- Books for Monks -- 12th century: the golden age of the monastic book, when monks in their scriptoria produced manuscripts for their libraries -- Books for Students -- 13th century: the rise of the universities and the emergence of a professional book trade to meet the new need for textbooks -- Books for Aristocrats -- 14th century: the Age of Chivalry - a wealthy and newly literate aristocracy generating a new type of book, the secular romance -- Books for Everybody -- 15th century: the emergence of the Book of Hours as a devotional book for ordinary households as well as the aristocracy -- Books for Priests -- 13th-16th centuries: the Bibles, Missals, Breviaries, Psalters and other service books and handbooks that sustained the life of the Church -- Books for Collectors -- 15th-16th centuries: the revival of classical learning and the creation of de luxe manuscripts for wealthy humanist patrons -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, European Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance Illumination of books and manuscripts