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Women, Manuscripts and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350-1550 (Paperback)
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Women, Manuscripts and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350-1550 (Paperback)
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Author Joni M. Hand sheds light on the reasons women of the Valois
courts from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century
commissioned devotional manuscripts. Visually interpreting the
non-text elements-portraits, coats of arms, and marginalia-as well
as the texts, Hand explores how the manuscripts were used to
express the women's religious, political, and/or genealogical
concerns. This study is arranged thematically according to the
method in which the owner is represented. Recognizing the
considerable influence these women had on the appearance of their
books, Hand interrogates how the manuscripts became a means of
self-expression beyond the realm of devotional practice. She
reveals how noblewomen used their private devotional manuscripts as
vehicles for self-definition, to reflect familial, political, and
social concerns, and to preserve the devotional and cultural
traditions of their families. Drawing on documentation of women's
book collections that has been buried within the inventories of
their fathers, husbands, or sons, Hand explores how these women
contributed to the cultural and spiritual character of the courts,
and played an integral role in the formation and evolution of the
royal libraries in Northern Europe.
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