This book argues that Robert Willis's presentations were fundamental to the format of British Archaeological Association meetings and to the creation of medieval architectural history. It discusses the background to his study of Canterbury in terms of his own research.

This book argues that Robert Willis's presentations were fundamental to the format of British Archaeological Association meetings and to the creation of medieval architectural history. It discusses the background to his study of Canterbury in terms of his own research.

A survey of the history, holdings, decoration, and conservation of one of England's finest medieval libraries, with full catalogue. The Willoughby family, from Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, built up an extensive medieval library, including the notable Wollaton Antiphonal; theirs is the largest surviving library gathered by a gentry family of the period, the product of a single acquisitive burst, beginning around 1460 and mainly completed at about the time of the Dissolution in 1540. The manuscripts remain unique because of the very substantial core which survives more or less in situ, together with a huge collection of family archives, at the University of Nottingham, just a few miles from their original home. This book focuses upon the ten manuscripts now in the Wollaton Library Collection as well asthe famous Antiphonal. Essays explore the history of the library and the Willoughby family, the books of Sir Thomas Chaworth, the art and function of the Antiphonal, the works of pastoral instruction, the decoration of the Frenchmanuscripts (including the earliest fully illustrated manuscript of romances), the Confessio Amantis, and the conservation of the collection. The essays are followed by a full catalogue of the Wollaton Library Collection aswell as of manuscripts and early printed books now dispersed as far afield as Tokyo and New York. Contributors: Alixe Bovey, Gavin Cole, Ralph Hanna, Dorothy Johnston, Rob Lutton, Derek Pearsall, Alison Stones, Thorlac Turville-Petre.

In the 1470s, one of the most innovative artists working in Bruges illuminated a Book of Hours for Jean Carpentin, lord of Granville and prominent citizen of Normandy. Known as the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book after one of his other works, this artist and members of his workshop enriched the pages of Carpentin's manuscript with miniatures, historiated initials, and boldly colored borders in which human figures, monsters, and monkeys are framed by twisting branches of acanthus. The manuscript's rich program of illumination includes 22 full-page miniatures, 42 historiated initials, and 64 borders incorporating biblical and apocryphal subjects as well as the Master's characteristically stocky peasants engaged in quotidian (and sometimes profane) activities. The Carpentin Hours is virtually unknown to scholarship. The present study is the first detailed assessment of this important manuscript, which is a magnificent demonstration of the Dresden Master's wit, invention, and technical virtuosity.

Contents: Alixe Bovey; Introduction Michelle P. Brown; An Early Medieval Outbreak of 'Influenza'? Concepts of 'Influence', Medieval and Modern George Henderson; Insular Art: Influence and Inference Lawrence Nees; Godescalc's Career and the Problems of 'Influence' William Diebold; The Anxiety of Influence in Early Medieval Art Helen C. Evans; Pseudo-Bonaventura on the Euphrates Donal Cooper; Franciscan Art and Mendicant Manuscript Illumination in Italy: A Reconsideration of Iconographic Primacy Robert Gibbs; 'Sober as a Judge': The Influence of Bolognese Law Manuscripts on Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Allegory of Justice in the Good Commune Lucy Freeman Sandler; Illuminated in the British Isles: French Influence and/or the Englishness of English Art, 1285-1385 T. A. Heslop; Authority and Imagination in the Illustration of Terence's Comedies Patricia Stirnemann & Anne Ritz-Guilbert; Cultural Confrontations Ursula Weekes; The Interplay between Prints and Illuminated Manuscripts in Brigittine Convents of the Low Countries during the 16th Century Scot McKendrick; Between Flanders and Normandy: A Case of Influence within Collaboration between Flemish and Norman Miniaturists? Rowan Watson; Fit for a King? The Alfonso of Aragon Hours and Baronial Patronage in Late 15th-century Naples John Lowden; Under the Influence of the Bibles Moralisees Cecily Hennessy; The Lincoln Typikon: The Influences of Church and Family Justine Andrews; Crossing Boundaries: Byzantine and Western Influences in a 14th-century Illustrated Commentary on Job Dei Jackson; A Work Like No Other: Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria Kirstin Kennedy; Evidence for the Islamic Source behind the Miniatures in Alfonso X of Castile's 1283 Libro de Ajedrez, dados y tables David Ganz; Problems of Influence in the Utrecht Psalter.