| Edition |
Second edition, revised, enlarged and with new illustrations. |
| Description |
272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-263) and index. |
| Contents |
I. 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 -- II. 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 -- III. Books for Monks. 12th century: the golden age of the monastic book, when monks in their scriptoria produced manuscripts for their libraries -- IV. 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 -- V. Books for Aristocrats. 14th century: the Age of Chivalry - a wealthy and newly literate aristocracy generating a new type of book, the secular romance -- VI. Books for Everybody. 15th century: the emergence of the Book of Hours as a devotional book for ordinary households as well as the aristocracy -- VII. Books for Priests. 13th-16th centuries: the Bibles, Missals, Breviaries, Psalters and other service books and handbooks that sustained the life of the Church -- VIII. Books for Collectors. 15th-16th centuries: the revival of classical learning and the creation of de luxe manuscripts for wealthy humanist patrons. |
| Subject |
Illumination of books and manuscripts -- History.
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| Indexed Term |
Illuminated manuscripts |
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Europe |
| Added Title |
Illuminated manuscripts |
| ISBN |
0714829498 |
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