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Text and Image in Rene d'Anjou's Livre des Tournois - Constructing Authority and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Court Culture (Hardcover)
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Text and Image in Rene d'Anjou's Livre des Tournois - Constructing Authority and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Court Culture (Hardcover)
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An illustrated manual showing how a medieval tournament was
organised, here presented in three volumes with essays on various
aspects of the manuscript. Rene d'Anjou's Livre des tournois is
famous as the most substantial account of the organisation of a
medieval tournament that has come down to us. It survives in eight
manuscripts, most of which have an almost identical layout; the
best of these is a magnificent work of art in its own right. But
these manuscripts have a further interest to the historian of
culture, because they represent in effect the evidence for one of
the first illustrated manuals, in which text and image are
complementary, and form a single whole. The copyists understood
this, and followed the original because the mise en page was an
essential part of the whole. Justin Sturgeon's interdisciplinary
study reveals the patterns and relationships which give the manual
its very specific character. The study begins by exploring the
relationship between the work's images and text, and brings into
focus the author's identity as an authority on the subject matter.
Next, the use and depiction of heraldry as essential to the
construction of an embedded visual narrative within the work is
explored. We then turn to the subject matter and to Rene's sources
for the work and the form of tournament he describes, are examined
and the author shows that Rene was drawing on specific precedents
to construct his idealized version of such an event. Analysis of
the visual presentation uses spatial and ritual theory to engage
with a series of spectacles surrounding the punishment and review
of the noble tourneyers. The last section of the book concentrates
on the physical manuscripts.The codicological, textual and visual
evidence from all eight known medieval manuscript copies is used to
construct a new understanding of the provenance and transmission of
the work, before turning to scrutinize the reception of two copies
in detail. The conclusion draws together threads of identity,
authority, and the importance of the Livre des tournois as a
product of the culture and circumstances of its production. A
series of appendices forms the second volume and directly supports
the book. These appendices include the first scholarly edition of
the source manuscript to make use of all eight medieval
manuscripts,with full supporting data. The third volume contains
300 images of vital comparisons in high resolution close-ups using
a special technique developed by the author which highlights
important details within images while showing the detail in the
context of the whole picture. Three Volume set.
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