Download or read book The Sherborne Missal written by Janet Backhouse and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superbly illustrated study introduction explores its creation and history of the 15th century Sherborne Missal and assesses its importance as a masterpiece in the history of English art.
Download or read book Medieval Birds in the Sherborne Missal written by Janet Backhouse and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority are accompanied by their names, written out in middle English, offering an almost unparalleled source of vernacular bird names in common use during the generation after Chaucer wrote his Canterbury Tales." "This is the first time that all birds form the Sherborne Missal have been reproduced together in sequence and this beautifully illustrated book provides an insight into a fascinating aspect of England's natural history in the middle ages."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Birds of the Sherborne Missal written by Elisabeth Bletsoe and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poem-cycle, each bird was observed in its native habitat within the boundaries of the diocese and then linked back to the Sherborne missal through religious iconography, ... methods of illumination as well as bird mythology.
Download or read book Landscape from a Dream written by Elisabeth Bletsoe and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape from a Dream is Elisabeth Bletsoe's first collection in ten years and offers startling evidence of a powerful voice that should be better known. Very much a poet of place, Elisabeth Bletsoe fuses elements of folklore, botany, literature, myth and narrative into a poetry that is at once feminist in spirit, forthright, and - to a certain extent - at odds with the prevailing British poetic styles, whether conservative or radical. Rooted in the landscape of her native Dorset, this is poetry of deep observation, but within that she also gives voice to some of Thomas Hardy's heroines - not just Tess Durbeyfield, but lesser-known female characters such as Marty South in The Woodlanders - characters who are much a part of this Dorset landscape as Bletsoe's poetry is. And the voices they gain are not the voices in Hardy's narratives, but strong, independent voices who have thrown off their creator.
Download or read book Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts written by Celia Fisher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each section of Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts includes relevant details of the manuscripts from which the illustrations are taken, and the concluding section discusses manuscript production in relation to these margins.
Download or read book The Illuminated Page written by Janet Backhouse and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminated manuscripts are among the richest, most revealing relics of the Western world before the introduction of printing. They are central to our knowledge of social and cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance. Drawing on the British Library's collection of medieval manuscripts, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to this art form, embracing both devotional and secular material.
Download or read book Birds in Medieval English Poetry written by Michael J. Warren and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower.
Download or read book English Embroidered Bookbindings written by Cyril Davenport and published by London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner. This book was released on 1899 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Piety in Pieces written by Kathryn M. Rudy and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants), books were expensive and built to last. They usually outlived their owners. Rather than discard them when they were superseded, book owners found ways to update, amend and upcycle books or book parts. These activities accelerated in the fifteenth century. Most manuscripts made before 1390 were bespoke and made for a particular client, but those made after 1390 (especially books of hours) were increasingly made for an open market, in which the producer was not in direct contact with the buyer. Increased efficiency led to more generic products, which owners were motivated to personalise. It also led to more blank parchment in the book, for example, the backs of inserted miniatures and the blanks ends of textual components. Book buyers of the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth century still held onto the old connotations of manuscripts—that they were custom-made luxury items—even when the production had become impersonal. Owners consequently purchased books made for an open market and then personalised them, filling in the blank spaces, and even adding more components later. This would give them an affordable product, but one that still smacked of luxury and met their individual needs. They kept older books in circulation by amending them, attached items to generic books to make them more relevant and valuable, and added new prayers with escalating indulgences as the culture of salvation shifted. Rudy considers ways in which book owners adjusted the contents of their books from the simplest (add a marginal note, sew in a curtain) to the most complex (take the book apart, embellish the components with painted decoration, add more quires of parchment). By making sometimes extreme adjustments, book owners kept their books fashionable and emotionally relevant. This study explores the intersection of codicology and human desire. Rudy shows how increased modularisation of book making led to more standardisation but also to more opportunities for personalisation. She asks: What properties did parchment manuscripts have that printed books lacked? What are the interrelationships among technology, efficiency, skill loss and standardisation?
Download or read book Hymns Ancient and Modern for Use in the Services of the Church with Accompanying Tunes written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grotesque in Church Art written by Thomas Tindall Wildridge and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rambles of an arch ologist among old books and in old places written by Frederick William Fairholt and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Missal for Murder written by Rosie Lear and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherborne in 1436 was a quarrelsome town, the townspeople and the Abbot at loggerheads over the narrowing of the entrance to Allhallows, the chapel-of-ease attached to the Abbey, and the positioning of a font in the same chapel. Against this background, a young man is found murdered in the Lady Chapel of the Abbey, and subsequent strange deaths occur. Matthias Barton feels compelled to investigate and being unused to murder, stumbles along until suddenly things become clearer to him. Will he, together with the local coroner Sir Tobias, unravel the mystery before things become too heated?
Download or read book Springtime and Other Essays written by Sir Francis Darwin and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medieval Herbal Remedies written by Anne Van Arsdall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.
Download or read book Notes and Queries for Worcestershire written by John Noake and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medieval Science Technology and Medicine written by Thomas F. Glick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine details the whole scope of scientific knowledge in the medieval period in more than 300 A to Z entries. This resource discusses the research, application of knowledge, cultural and technology exchanges, experimentation, and achievements in the many disciplines related to science and technology. Coverage includes inventions, discoveries, concepts, places and fields of study, regions, and significant contributors to various fields of science. There are also entries on South-Central and East Asian science. This reference work provides an examination of medieval scientific tradition as well as an appreciation for the relationship between medieval science and the traditions it supplanted and those that replaced it. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages website.
