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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World

de Hamel, Christopher

Paperback

Art HistoryMedieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Christianity

Publisher Price: $26.00

ISBN10: 0143110802
ISBN13: 9780143110804
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Nov 12 2019
Pages: 640
Weight: 2.40
Height: 1.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Cooper Prize

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is one of the least likely and most wonderful books I have ever read. . . . a book of wonders. --New York Times Book Review

De Hamel is a man of extraordinary erudition and easy charm; his book asks many questions of the past, and invokes many mysteries. --The New Yorker

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is miles away from academic dry-as-dust scholarship. You'll love learning from it. --Washington Post

An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts.

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history--and about the modern world, too.

In so doing, de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, and collectors. He traces the elaborate journeys that these exceptionally precious artifacts have made through time and shows us how they have been copied, how they have been embroiled in politics, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty and as symbols of national identity, and who has owned them or lusted after them (and how we can tell).

From the earliest book in medieval England to the incomparable Book of Kells to the oldest manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, these encounters tell a narrative of intellectual culture and art over the course of a millennium. Two of the manuscripts visited are now in libraries of North America, the Morgan Library in New York and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts allows us to experience some of the greatest works of art in our culture to give us a different perspective on history and on how we come by knowledge.

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