Illuminating the Middle Ages : tributes to Prof. John Lowden from his students, friends and colleagues /

"The twenty-eight essays in this collection showcase cutting-edge research in manuscript studies, encompassing material from late antiquity to the Renaissance. The volume celebrates the exceptional contribution of John Lowden to the study of medieval books. The authors explore some of the theme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lowden, John (honouree.), Cleaver, Laura (Editor ), Bovey, Alixe (Editor ), Donkin, Lucy (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Colección:Library of the written word. v. 12.
Library of the written word ; v. 79.
Temas:
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Electronic books.
Enluminure médiévale.
Manuscrits médiévaux.
Livres numériques.
e-books.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Festschriften
Festschriften.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Illuminating the Middle Ages: Tributes to Prof. John Lowden from his Students, Friends and Colleagues
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Illustrations
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 Were Early Medieval Picture Cycles Recycled from Late Antiquity? New Evidence for a Lost Archetype of the Apollonius Pictus-An Illustrated Classic
  • 2 Milanese Early Medieval Psalters: Models and Influences from West and East
  • 3 Noli me tangere in the Codex Egberti (Reichenau, c. 977-93) and in the Gospel Book of Otto iii (Reichenau, 998-1000): Visual Exegesis in Context
  • 4 The Green Tinted Souls of Dives and Lazarus in the Codex Aureus of Echternach
  • 5 Portraits of Terence, the African
  • 6 Manuscripts Face to Face: León and the Holy Roman Empire in the Mid-eleventh Century
  • 7 The Two Pictures Cycles in Early Manuscripts of St Anselm's Prayers
  • 8 Early Cistercian Manuscripts from Clairvaux
  • 9 The Imagery of Noah's Ark in the Mosaic Decoration of Monreale Cathedral
  • 10 Some Observations on the Artists of the Leiden Psalter (Leiden, University Library MS B.P.L. 76A) and Their Working Practices
  • 11 A Portrait of Abraham Ibn Ezra (Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal MS 1186)
  • 12 The Virgin and Child in the Map Psalter (London, British Library Additional MS 28681)
  • 13 Seeing and Reading the Matthew Paris Saints' Lives
  • 14 Extended Shelf-life: Manuscript Consolidation in an English Monastic Library
  • 15 Domesday in Disguise
  • 16 From Warwickshire to New York via Canterbury: The Travels and Tribulations of the Bible of Richard of Sholdon
  • 17 Virgin, Devil, Bishop, King: Nicola Pisano's Pulpit in Siena and Alfonso x's Cantigas de Santa Maria
  • 18 Of Venerable Teachers and Boisterous Students: Maistre Brunetto and the Arabic Aristotle
  • 19 Lost and Found in the Meditationes Vitae Christi, Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 410
  • 20 Ivory Booklets, Devotion in Cologne
  • 21 Gothic Ivories Unhinged
  • 22 Monks and Ants in the Presence of Death: A Re-reading of Pliny the Elder in Quattrocento Illumination
  • 23 The Ridware Cartulary and the Great Seal of England
  • 24 Sin and Salvation in the Hours of Jean de Dunois
  • 25 Harreteau and His Unfinished Book of Hours
  • 26 Looking Beneath the Surface: Subterranean Space in the Kutná Hora Cantional
  • 27 A Manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris from the Library of the Benedictine Convent of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore in Milan?
  • 28 Bloodlines: Medicine and Cosmology in France, China, and Mexico
  • Index of manuscripts
  • General Index

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