This illustrated text answers questions about the making of illuminated manuscripts, offering definitions of the techniques, processes and materials used and discussing textual and illustrative contents. The technical terms included are accompanied by examples for clarification.
Ten outstanding contemporary writers and thinkers respond to Bob Geldof's challenge. How do serious-thinking people address the problems of poverty, globalisation, the destruction of human dignity, genocide and the rights of children? This book arose out of a challenge. The challenge was made by Bob Geldof to the British academic and historian ...
Christianity has been a central force in the shaping of western culture. It is not surprising, therefore, that the greatest artists down the centuries have sought to paint its story. This book tells the history of Christian art, exploring the purpose behind the masterpieces and looking at the context in which they were created. The modern ...
An examination of 12 well-known manuscripts, aimed at both the historian and the scribe. Examples of the manuscripts are included, with a full-page colour reproduction of a page from the same manuscript alongside. Each section also includes a piece of modern calligraphy, showing how the hand can be used today.
The eighth-century Latin Gospelbook known as the Lindisfarne Gospels, with its tenth-century gloss (the earliest surviving translation of the Gospels into the English language), is one of the great landmarks of human cultural achievement. Like all such icons, or important archaeological sites, it repays revisiting. Successive generations approach ...
A survey of the evolution of scripts and a guide to reading historical documents illustrated from a wide range of manuscripts. Fifty-five full-page plates give examples of the major western scripts in broadly chronological sequence, each accompanied by a commentary indentifying the type of script, its historical and regional currency, distinctive ...
Published to coincide with a British Library exhibition of the same name, "Painted Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels" looks at the background and history of this breathtaking artwork and symbol of Christian faith. Both illustrated and readable, the book is divided into short sections, each examining an aspect of the Anglo-Saxon world ...
The Anglo-Saxons first appeared on the historical scene as pagan pirates and mercenaries moving into the declining Roman Empire in the fifth century. By the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, Anglo-Saxon England was one of the most sophisticated states in the medieval West, renowned for its ecclesiastical and cultural achievements. The written ...
This selection of thirteen papers from the published and unpublished work of the late Professor Julian Brown is brought together as a tribute to one of the great palaeographers of his time. The book provides penetrating insights into the study of script, parchment, and illuminations, as well as into the wider contents of early history and art, and ...
Fourteen Historical Manuscripts Supported by Other Manuscript examples, are used to explore fifteen selected writing styles. Dr Michelle P. Brown analyses the production of the manuscripts, setting them in their historical context and relating them to the people who produced them. Patricia Lovett uses the manuscripts to analyse the letter-forms in ...
Establishes a new baseline for Mercian scholarship, covering the rise and fall of the kingdom, its major institutions, relations with other political entities as well as its visual and material culture.
Setting the Luttrell Psalter within its medieval society and culture, this work traces its history, inspiration and creation, highlighting its artistic models, originality and innovation. Exploring its patronage, purpose and audience, it unravels the likely point and meaning of the Luttrell's imagery and domestic drama.
This is a series of short, highly illustrated introductions to some key areas in the making of books. Each title offers a thorough and accessible historical overview of techniques and processes, illustrated with examples drawn from the Library's outstanding collections, and where appropriate, specially commissioned photographs of craftspeople at ...
This celebrated medieval picture-book tells the Biblical story, focusing upon the Creation to the Flood, the Life of Christ, and the Apocalypse, with the help of illustrations of everyday 14th-century England. It is based on the biblical narrative but also includes plenty of apocryphal episodes, for example Christ surfing on sunbeams as a child, ...
This work takes a look at the development of writing systems throughout the world, how they have evolved according to different social needs, and anticipates how the rise of the computer will affect the development of writing in the future. The author discusses particularly the role of writing in the West before the invention of printing, and its ...
This CD-ROM enables the user to view the pages of "The Sherborne Missal" - one of the British Library's greatest treasures. The Sherborne Missal was produced around 1400 CE for Sherborne Abbey in Dorset. Unusually for a manuscript of the period, it includes a -large number of British birds in the decorative borders. The user can click and drag the ...
The book was a central element of Anglo-Saxon art and society and a rich vehicle for cultural expression. In this study of the art of bookmaking throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, the author discusses the works and their readers, the scribes' materials and techniques, script and illumination.
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