Mirror in Parchment The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England

Name: Mirror in Parchment The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England
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ISBN: 9780226092409

ISBN-10: 0226092402

ISBN-13: 9780226092409

Edition: 1998 (Annual)

Authors: Michael Camille

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What is the status of visual evidence in history? Can we actually see the past through images? Where are the traces of previous lives deposited? Michael Camille addresses these important questions in Mirror in Parchment, a lively, searching study of one medieval manuscript, its patron, producers, and historical progeny. The richly illuminated Luttrell Psalter was created for the English nobleman Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (1276-1345). Inexpensive mechanical illustration has since disseminated the book's images to a much wider audience; hence the Psalter's representations of manorial life have come to profoundly shape our modern idea of what medieval English people, high and low, looked like at…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 412
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Preface


Introduction


The Manuscript as Mirror



The Lord's Arms: Knighthood, War and Play



The Lord's Hall: Feasting, Family and Fashion



The Lord's Church: Monument, Sermon and Memory



The Lord's Lands: Men, Women and Machines



The Lord's Folk: Masks, Mummers and Monsters



The Lord's Enemies: Saracens, Scotsmen and the Biped Beast



The Lord's Illuminators: Six Hands and a Face


References List of Illustrations


Index