Edited by Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir

This collection of articles, by scholars with established reputations in the field, focuses on medieval books designed for use in Christian worship, both public and private. Examples are drawn from French, Italian and Dutch work of the fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. The contributors explore the various ways in which text and imagery complement and reinforce one another, and the importance of music and chant is also addressed. The interdisciplinary focus ensures that it will be of wide interest to scholars in many different fields.

• Original contributions by scholars with established reputations in the field
• No other volume deals with the same material
• Much of the visual material previously unpublished or inaccessible

Market: Scholars with an interest in medieval studies; art history; Church history; manuscript studies; liturgical studies; painting, illumination and illustration; history of the book; women's history; social history; cultural studies. Book collectors. Academic libraries. The general reader with an interest in the above subjects.

Comparable Books: Medieval Texts and Images: Studies of Manuscripts from the Middle Ages, Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir (Harwood, 1991). Women and the Book, Jane Taylor and Lesley Smith (British Library, 1997).

Editors: Margaret Manion is Professor Emeritus, Department of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne. Her publications include a facsimile edition of The Wharncliffe Hours (Thames & Hudson); Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts in Australian Collections (with Vera F. Vines) (Thames & Hudson). Bernard Muir is Reader in Medieval Language and Literature in the English Department, University of Melbourne. His publications include The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry (Exeter); A Pre-Conquest English Prayerbook (Boydell).

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