The Making of the Bibles Moralisées: Volume II: The Book of Ruth (Making of the Bible Moralisees)

The Making of the Bibles Moralisées: Volume II: The Book of Ruth (Making of the Bible Moralisees) image
ISBN-10:

0271019190

ISBN-13:

9780271019192

Author(s): Lowden, John
Edition: 1
Released: Aug 01, 2000
Format: Hardcover, 312 pages
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AWARD WINNER - 2002 OTTO GRUNDLER PRIZE for the best book in Medieval Studies, sponsored by The Medieval InstituteThe 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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