
Tributes to Jonathan J.G. Alexander
The Making and Meaning of Illuminated Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts, Art & Architecture
Susan L'Engle, Gerald B. Guest (eds)
- Pages: 532 p.
- Size:210 x 275 mm
- Illustrations:244 b/w
- Language(s):English, French, Italian
- Publication Year:2006
- € 180,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-1-872501-47-5
- Hardback
- Available
"C'est un fort bel objet que ce volume, (...): mise en page impeccable, abondantes illustrations reproduisant dessins, gravures, mais surtout des enluminures et des folios manuscrits." (S. Menegaldo dans Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales, 14, 2007)
Part Two: Methods of Work and Production François Avril, Les copies à répétition. A propos de la circulation et de la dissiménation des modèles ; Bezalel Narkiss, Scribes and Artists of the Ashburnham Pentateuch ; Margot McIlwain Nishimura, The Grey Gospels : A Frankish Curiosity in Cape Town ; Myra Dickman Orth, The English Great Bible of 1539 and the French Connection ; Jane Rosenthal and Patrick McGurk, Author, Symbol and Word: The Inspired Evangelists in Judith of Flanders's Anglo-Saxon Gospelbooks ; Marina Vidas, Norway's French Connection: The Intended Reader and Subsequent Owners of the Christina Psalter
Part Three: Marginalia Madeline H. Caviness, Unnatural Spectacles, Aristotelian Precepts and the Construction of Gender around 1300 ; Ruth Mellinkoff, Break a Leg ! ; Lilian M.C. Randall, Frontal Heads in the Borders of Parisian and South Netherlandish Books of Hours, ca. 1415-60 ; Lucy Freeman Sandler, Bared: The Writing Bear in the British Library Bohun Psalter
Part Four: Text and Image
Walter Cahn, An Illuminated Manuscript of Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum ; C. M. Kauffmann, The Iconography of the Judgement of Solomon in the Middle Ages ; Giordana Mariana Canova, L'antico nella miniatura padovana del Rinascimento: Un Plutarco alla Stiftsbibliothek di Linköping ; Nigel Morgan, Pictured Sermons in Thirteenth-Century England ; Nancy Freeman Regalado, Picturing the Story of Chivalry in Jacques Bretel's Tournoi de Chauvency (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308) ; Kathryn A. Smith, Accident, Play and Invention: Three Infancy Miracles in the Holkham Bible Picture Book ; Alison Stones, The ‘Terrier de l'Évêque’ and Some Reflections of Daily Life in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century
Part Five: Cultural Context Paul Binski, John the Smith’s Grave ; Martha Easton, The Wound of Christ, the Mouth of Hell: Appropriations and Inversions of Female Anatomy in the Later Middle Ages ; Désirée Koslin, Under the Influence: Copying the Revelationes of St. Birgitta of Sweden ; Mary and Richard Rouse, A Cat Can Look at a King: an Illustrated Episode in the Grandes Chroniques ; Evelyn Birge Vitz, Liturgical versus Biblical Citation in Medieval Vernacular Literature ; William M. Voelkle, Liberale da Verona's North Wind Unraveled
Part Six: Afterlives - Receptions Janet Backhouse, The Case of Queen Melisende's Psalter: An Historical Investigation; Paul Crossley, Anglia Perdita. English Medieval Architecture and Neo-Romanticism ; Karen Eileen Overbey, Locating the Book: The Domnach Airgid Shrine in Medieval Ireland ; Roger S. Wieck, Papal Fragments at Rosenbach
Bibliography of J.J.G. Alexander – Indexes – Photographic Credits