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Analysis of the patronage of Benedictine monasteries has much to
reveal about both monastic life and material culture of the time.
The patronage of Benedictine art and architecture, and the
circumstances that made it possible and desirable, reveal much
about the ambitions, beliefs and allegiances of both the order and
those who interacted with it; moreover, analysis of such patronage
also improves our understanding of some of the most important and
beautiful buildings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, stained
glass and other artefacts surviving from the middle ages.In this
survey,focussing on the Benedictine monasteries and nunneries in
south-west England (including Glastonbury) during the 240 years
leading up to the dissolution of the religious orders under Henry
VIII, the author discusses the question interms of "internal"
practice, initiated by Benedictine monks and nuns, and "external"
practice, for which non-monastic agents were responsible; and
analyses the historical circumstances affecting the commission and
the purchase of art and architecture. Throughout, he takes care to
situate the study of buildings and their embellishment within the
broader context of Benedictine culture. The text is lavishly
illustrated with forty-five black and white platesof art,
architecture and documents, many of which have not previously been
reproduced. Dr JULIAN M. LUXFORD is Senior Lecturer at the School
of Art History, St Andrews University.
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Arthurian Literature XXIX (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by Bart Besamusca, Christopher Michael Berard, Dorsey Armstrong, …
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Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a
great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers
fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical
issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT The influence and significance of
the legend of Arthur are fully demonstrated by the subject matter
and time-span of articles here, ranging from a mid twelfth-century
Latin vita of the Welsh saint Dyfrig to the early modernArthur of
the Dutch. Topics addressed include the reasons for Edward III's
abandonment of the Order of the Round Table; the 1368 relocation of
Arthur's tomb at Glastonbury Abbey; the evidence for our knowledge
of the French manuscript sources for Malory's first tale, in
particular the Suite du Merlin; and the central role played by
Cornwall in Malory's literary worldview. Meanwhile, a survey of the
pan-European aspects of medieval Arthurian literature, considering
key characters in both familiar and less familiar languages such as
Old Norse and Hebrew, further outlines its popularity and impact.
Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English, University of
Durham;Professor David F. Johnson teaches in the English
Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee. Contributors:
Dorsey Armstrong, Christopher Berard, Bart Besamusca, P.J.C. Field,
Linda Gowans, Sjoerd Levelt, JulianM. Luxford, Ryan Naughton,
Jessica Quinlan, Joshua Byron Smith
New essays on late medieval manuscripts highlight the complicated
network of their production and dissemination. One of the most
important developments in medieval English literary studies since
the 1980s has been the growth of manuscript studies. Long regarded
as mere textual repositories, and treated superficially by editors,
manuscripts are now acknowledged as centrally important in the
study of later medieval texts. The essays collected here discuss
aspects of the design and distribution of manuscripts in late
medieval England, with a particular focus on vernacular manuscripts
of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
Those in the first half consider material evidence for scribal
decisions about design: these range from analysis of individual
codices to broader discussions of particular types of manuscripts,
both religious and secular. Later essays look at the evidence for
the production and distribution of manuscripts of specific English
texts or types of text. These include the major Middle English
poems The Canterbury Tales and Piers Plowman, as well as key
religious works such as Love's Mirror, Hilton's Scale of
Perfection, the Speculum Vitae and The Pricke of Conscience, all of
which survive in significant numbers of manuscripts. The comparison
of secular and devotional texts illuminates shared networks of
production and dissemination, and increases our knowledge of
regional and metropolitan book production in the period before
printing. Contributors: DANIEL W. MOSSER, JACOB THAISEN, TAKAKO
KATO, SHERRY L. REAMES, AMELIA GROUNDS, ALEXANDRA BARRATT, JULIAN
M. LUXFORD, LINNE R. MOONEY, MICHAEL G. SARGENT, JOHNJ. THOMPSON,
MARGARET CONNOLLY, RALPH HANNA, GEORGE R. KEISER.
J.J.G. Alexander, An English Twelfth-Century Manuscript of Hugh of
St. Victor and Examples of Italian Fitfteenth-Century Illumination
in the Lilly Library, Bloomington, Indiana - J. Barclay-Lloyd,
Creating a Medieval Interior in Melbourne: the Stained Glass
Windows of St. Patrick's Cathedral - A. Bennett, A French Cleric's
Handbook of Devotions of the Early Thirteenth Century - P. Binski,
The Ante-Reliquary Chapel Paintings in Norwich Cathedral: The Holy
Blood, St. Richard and All Saints - M. Campbell, An English
Medieval Jug - L. Dennison, A Unique Monument: the Brass of
Philippe de Mezieres - E. Duffy, The Four Latin Doctors in Late
Medieval England - R. Gibbs, Dreams of Salvation: Vitale da
Bologna's Mezzaratta Nativity and its Progeny - G. Henderson, The
Idiosyncrasies of a Thirteenth-Century Illustrator: The Old
Testament Cycle in St. John's College Cambridge, Ms.K.26 Revisited
- T.A. Heslop, Attending at Calvary: an Early Fifteenth-Century
English Panel Painting - M. Kauffmann, The Alheide Psalter, a
Thuringian Manuscript Recording Three Hundred Years of Private
Devotion - D. King, John de Warenne, Emund Gonville and the
Thetford Dominican Altar Paintings - P. Klein, The Meaning of
Fables in the Bayeux Tapestry - S. Lewis, Apocalypses' in Text and
Image: From Translation to Transformation in Fourteenth-Century
Vernacular Apocalypses - J. Luxford, The Monumental Epitaph of
Edmund Crouchback - M. Manion, Illuminating a Liturgical Text for
Lay Use: The Late Medieval Breviary - R. Marks, The Dean and the
Transsexual. Or Why Did John Colet Desire Burial Before the Image
of St. Uncumber - M. Michael, Transnationality: The Wilton Dyptich
as Text - R. Pfaff, The Glastonbury Collectar - K.-G. Pfandtner,
The Last Knight's Search for his Schoolbooks: Emperor Maximilian I
and Early Book Conservation Strategies - U. Plahter, Norwegian
Frontals and Early Medieval Oil Painting - N. Rogers, The Frenze
Palimpsest - L. Sandler, Mary de Bohun's Libellus of Devotional
Readings on the Virgin Mary, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Margaret -
J. Stratford, Clerks, Forfeiture and Books - R. Thomson, The Bury
Bible - Further Thoughts - P. Tudor-Craig, St. Francis and the
Psalter of Alphonso BL Addition 24686.
A multi-disciplinary approach to two of the most important legal
institutions of the Middle Ages. The wars waged by the English in
France during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries led to the
need for judicial agencies which could deal with disputes that
arose on land and sea, beyond the reach of indigenous laws. This
led to the jurisdictional development of the Courts of Chivalry and
Admiralty, presiding over respectively heraldic and maritime
disputes. They were thus of considerable importance in the Middle
Ages; but they have attracted comparatively little scholarly
attention. The essays here examine their officers, proceedings and
the wider cultural and political context in which they had
jurisdiction and operated in later medieval Western Europe. They
reveal similarities in personnel, institutions and outlook, as well
as in the issues confronting rulers in territories across Europe.
They also demonstrate how assertions of sovereignty and challenges
to judicial competence were inextricably linked to complex
political agendas; and that both military and maritime law were
international in reach because they were underpinned by
trans-national customs and the principles and procedures of
Continental civil law. Combininglaw with military and maritime
history, and discussing the art and material culture of chivalric
disputes as well as their associated heraldry, the volume provides
fresh new insights into an important area of medieval life and
culture. ANTHONY MUSSON is Head of Research at Historic Royal
Palaces; NIGEL RAMSAY is Honorary Senior Research Associate in the
Department of History at University College London. Contributors:
Andrew Ayton, Richard Barber, John Ford, Laurent Hablot, Thomas K.
Heeboll-Holm, Julian Luxford, Ralph Moffat, Philip Morgan, Bertrand
Schnerb, Anne F. Sutton, Lorenzo Tanzini.
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