Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of St. Louis
Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of St. Louis

Author: Robert Branner

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 622

ISBN-13: 0520349776

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

The Murthly Hours
The Murthly Hours

Author: John Higgitt

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780802047595

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Accompanying CD-ROM contains digital facsimile of the Murthly Hours with commentary.

The Art of Medicine
The Art of Medicine

Author: O'Boyle

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-09-20

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 9004477896

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In this work, the author contributes to our understanding of the formation of medicine as a university discipline by explaining how a collection of medical works known as the Ars medicine ("The Art of Medicine") came to form the basis of medical teaching in the early universities. Based upon extensive manuscript research, this study explains how the collection evolved to suit the needs of university medical teaching and how it helped to establish Hippocratic-Galenic medicine as the new medical othodoxy. Focusing upon the medical faculty at the University of Paris, the book investigates how medical texts were produced, who owned them and how they were used in the classroom. It thus explains how language was used, how textual authority was created and utilized, and how text-based knowledge was sanctioned in the classroom.

The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture

Author: Colum Hourihane

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 4064

ISBN-13: 0195395360

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This volume offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in the celebrated 'Grove Dictionary of Art' and adding hundreds of new entries, it offers students, researchers and the general public a reliable, up-to-date, and convenient resource covering this field of major importance in the development of Western history and international art and architecture.

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

Author:

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published:

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.

Church, State, Vellum, and Stone
Church, State, Vellum, and Stone

Author: Therese Martin

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2005-12-01

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 904741618X

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The essays in this volume, written in honor of retired scholar John Williams, treat a variety of topics pertaining to Medieval Spain; providing an interdisciplinary, international, and intergenerational view of current work in the field.

Creating French Culture
Creating French Culture

Author: Marie-Hélène Tesnière

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 0300062834

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From monastic cloisters in the time of Charlemagne to the book-lined studies of twentieth-century authors, this splendid book presents an overview of the literary and artistic world in France. The Bibliothèque nationale de France, today rich in collections of illuminated manuscripts, books, medals, maps, and prints, had its beginnings when Charles V established his library in the falcon tower of the Louvre. During the Middle Ages, culture was the handmaiden of Church and government; during the absolute monarchy, it became an instrument of propaganda; in the eighteenth century, it developed an independent voice. This book explores the changing relationship between power and culture in France as seen in the history of its national library.