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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"manuscript illumination"”.
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The Visual Language of Vernacular Manuscript Illumination: John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Pierpont Morgan MS M.126)
… of the study is Pierpont Morgan MS M. 126, a manuscript of the Confessio Amantis produced c.1472 and made for Edward IV and his Queen Consort, Elizabeth Woodville. Although it has been acclaimed as one of the most impressive extant manuscripts of Middle English literature, it has never been …
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From Paris o Persia: Two Worlds Juxtaposed by the Journey fo the "Morgan Picture Bible"
… mid-thirteenth century French illuminated manuscript often associated with the Parisian court of Louis IX, traveled to Isfahan, Persia in the early seventeenth century when it was sent as a diplomatic gift to Shah Abbas I. Because of this connection, the Morgan Bible can be considered an …
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Pilgrimage through the pages: pilgrim's badges in late medieval devotional manuscripts
… trompe l’oeil representations of badges in manuscript margins. Through an analysis of surviving examples, this dissertation will examine how a badge’s original function as a souvenir of a physical pilgrimage shifted within the context of a manuscript. Similarly, the augmentation of a …
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Academic Mobility and Identity Construction at the Late Medieval Universities of Paris and Orléans
… as well as material culture in the form of manuscript illumination. On the other hand, the thesis contributes to the current academic debates surrounding the development of secular and socio-political forms of collective identity in pre-modern Europe. Indeed, I propose an original …
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Gender and dynastic sanctity in late fifteenth-century France: Le livre des faiz monseigneur Saint Loys (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 2829)
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Valois court politics in the time of Jean of Berry and the Collins Cité de Dieu: PMA Collins 1945-65-1
… of the two opposing factions. Due in part to the manuscripts greatly expanded illumination cycle, PMA Collins 1945-65-1 alters the original text’s flow and introduces a changed mode of reader reception. This paper will explore the effect of the reading flow of this illuminated text on its …
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From Fear of Hell to Love of Christ: The Monastic Devotional Use of MS K.21 in the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge
The St. John’s College, Cambridge manuscript K.21 contains a monastic calendar, twenty-four canticles, and 115 hymns rubricated for use in the Divine Office. Interrupting this Latin material is a lengthy illustrated narrative presenting the Passion of Christ and the final years of the Virgin Mary …
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The context, purpose, and dissemination of legendary genealogies in northern England and Iceland c. 1120 – c. 1241
… The sources are a collection of Durham related manuscripts with illuminations of the pagan god Woden (c. 1120–88) in two historical works De Primo Saxonum Aduentu and De Gestis Regum; Genealogia Regum Anglorum (Rievaulx, 1153x54) by Aelred of Rievaulx; two works attributed to Snorri Sturluson’s …