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Medieval prayer books held not only the devotions and meditations
of Christianity, but also housed, slipped between pages, sundry
notes, reminders, and ephemera, such as pilgrims' badges, sworn
oaths, and small painted images. Many of these last items have been
classified as manuscript illumination, but Kathryn M. Rudy argues
that these pictures should be called, instead, parchment paintings,
similar to postcards. In a delightful study identifying this group
of images for the first time, Rudy delineates how these objects
functioned apart from the books in which they were kept. Whereas
manuscript illuminations were designed to provide a visual
narrative to accompany a book's text, parchment paintings offered a
kind of autonomous currency for exchange between individuals-people
who longed for saturated color in a gray world of wood, stone, and
earth. These small, colorful pictures offered a brilliant reprieve,
and Rudy shows how these intriguing and previously unfamiliar
images were traded and cherished, shedding light into the everyday
life and relationships of those in the medieval Low Countries.
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