Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections
- ISBN-10
- 1892850265
- ISBN-13
- 9781892850263
- Series
- Beyond Words
- Category
- Collectors and collecting
- Pages
- 374
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Authors
- Lisa Fagin Davis, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, William P. Stoneman
Description
Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions, Beyond Words provides a sweeping overview of the history of the book in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as a guide to its production, illumination, functions, and readership. With over 150 manuscripts on display, Manuscripts for Pleasure & Piety at the McMullen Museum focuses on lay readership and the place of books in medieval society. The High Middle Ages witnessed an affirmation of the visual and, with it, empirical experience. There was an explosion of illumination. Various types of images, whether in prayer or professional books, attest to the newfound importance of visual demonstration in matters of faith and science alike."--
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