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Postcards on parchment : the social lives of medieval books
- Title
- Postcards on parchment : the social lives of medieval books / Kathryn M. Rudy.
- Author
- Rudy, Kathryn M.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 15-1297 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- ix, 359 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm
- Summary
- "Medieval prayer books held not only the devotions and meditations of Christianity, but also housed, slipped between pages, sundry notes, reminders, and ephemera, such as pilgrims' badges, sworn oaths, and small painted images. Many of these last items have been classified as manuscript illumination, but Kathryn M. Rudy argues that these pictures should be called, instead, parchment paintings, similar to postcards. In a delightful study identifying this group of images for the first time, Rudy delineates how these objects functioned apart from the books in which they were kept. Whereas manuscript illuminations were designed to provide a visual narrative to accompany a book's text, parchment paintings offered a kind of autonomous currency for exchange between individuals--people who longed for saturated color in a gray world of wood, stone, and earth. These small, colorful pictures offered a brilliant reprieve, and Rudy shows how these intriguing and previously unfamiliar images were traded and cherished, shedding light into the everyday life and relationships of those in the medieval Low Countries. "--
- Alternative Title
- Social lives of medieval books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-352) and indexes.
- Call Number
- JFF 15-1297
- ISBN
- 9780300209891 (hardback)
- 0300209894 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2015001695
- OCLC
- 893896520
- Author
- Rudy, Kathryn M., author.
- Title
- Postcards on parchment : the social lives of medieval books / Kathryn M. Rudy.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-352) and indexes.
- Chronological Term
- To 1500
- Research Call Number
- JFF 15-1297