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Hidden Hands - The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers (Paperback)
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Hidden Hands - The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers (Paperback)
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List price R408
Loot Price R334
Discovery Miles 3 340
You Save R74 (18%)
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'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and
beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'Immersive,
conversational and intensely visual' Helen Castor
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Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history
and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence
we have of entire lives, long receded. Hidden Hands tells the
stories of the artisans, artists, scribes and readers, patrons and
collectors who made and kept the beautiful, fragile objects that
have survived the ravages of fire, water and deliberate destruction
to form a picture of both English culture and the wider European
culture of which it is part. Without manuscripts, she shows, many
historical figures would be lost to us, as well as those of lower
social status, women and people of colour, their stories erased,
and the remnants of their labours destroyed. From the Cuthbert
Bible, to works including those by the Beowulf poet, Margery Kempe,
Julian of Norwich, Sir Thomas Malory, Chaucer, the Paston Letters
and Shakespeare, Mary Wellesley describes the production and
preservation of these priceless objects. With an insistent emphasis
on the early role of women as authors and artists and illustrated
with over fifty colour plates, Hidden Hands is an important
contribution to our understanding of literature and history.
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