Journey Through the Afterlife
Journey Through the Afterlife

Author: John H. Taylor

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780674057500

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With contributions from leading scholars and detailed catalog entries that interpret the spells and painted scenes, this fascinating and important work affords a greater understanding of ancient Egyptian belief systems and poignantly reveals the hopes and fears about the world beyond death.

The Making of the Bibles MoralisŽes: Volume I: The Manuscripts
The Making of the Bibles MoralisŽes: Volume I: The Manuscripts

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Publisher: Penn State Press

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Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780271044088

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The Bibles Moralisées are by far the richest and most complex attempt at biblical illustration ever undertaken. Seven of them survive today, made primarily for the kings and queens of France between the early thirteenth and late fifteenth centuries. John Lowden's pioneering two-volume study brings new material to light and offers a wholly new approach to understanding the Bibles, which contain literally thousands of figures. Volume I, based on exhaustive codicological analysis, considers the making and the later history of use of each of the manuscripts. Volume II investigates in detail the treatment of one portion of the Bible, the Book of Ruth, in all the manuscripts. Discussion is supported by many new photographs in color and black and white. Together the two volumes challenge conventional wisdom about both the Bibles Moralisées and the relationship of word and image in medieval culture.

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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Total Pages: 266

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