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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.
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