Description
This collection of articles, by scholars with established reputations in the field, makes a speciality of medieval books designed to be used in Christian worship, both private and non-private. Examples are drawn from French, Italian and Dutch work of the fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. The contributors explore the quite a lot of ways in which text and imagery complement and re-enforce one another, and the importance of music and chant may be addressed. The interdisciplinary center of attention ensures that it’s going to be of wide interest to scholars in a variety of fields. It is a work of original contributions by scholars with established reputations in the field; no other volume deals with the same material. Much of the visual material has been prior to now unpublished or inaccessible.