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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts - Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World (Paperback)
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts - Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World (Paperback)
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An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the
medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's
leading experts. Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff
Cooper Prize. A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Gift Guide
Pick! Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating
examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval
period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader
into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they
tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and
about the modern world, too. In so doing, de Hamel introduces us to
kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves,
dealers, and collectors. He traces the elaborate journeys that
these exceptionally precious artifacts have made through time and
shows us how they have been copied, how they have been embroiled in
politics, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty
and as symbols of national identity, and who has owned them or
lusted after them (and how we can tell). From the earliest book in
medieval England to the incomparable Book of Kells to the oldest
manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, these encounters tell a
narrative of intellectual culture and art over the course of a
millennium. Two of the manuscripts visited are now in libraries of
North America, the Morgan Library in New York and the Getty Museum
in Los Angeles. Part travel book, part detective story, part
conversation with the reader, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
allows us to experience some of the greatest works of art in our
culture to give us a different perspective on history and on how we
come by knowledge.
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