Toward A Global Middle Ages - Encountering The World Through Illuminated Manuscripts

Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women''s literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and period boundaries. <p/>Since the closing decades of the twentieth century, medieval women''s...

The relations between medieval East Anglia and countries across the North Sea examined from a variety of perspectives.

<p>Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art. Before the printing press was invented, books were produced by hand, and their illustration using brightly colored pigments and gold embellishments...

Glorious works of art as well as documents of bygone eras, painted illuminated manuscripts supply perhaps the greatest and by far the best-preserved evidence of daily life during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This <i>Tiny Folio</i> draws...