Sealed in Parchment
Rereadings of Knighthood in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes
Format:Hardback
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Published:1st Aug '94
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Chretien de Troyes was France's great medieval poet - inventor of the genre of courtly romance and popularizer of the Arthurian legend. The 44 surviving manuscripts of his work (ten of them illuminated) pose a number of questions about who used these books and in what way. In "Sealed in Parchment", Sandra Hindman scrutinizes both text and images to reveal what the manuscripts can tell us about medieval society and politics.
ISBN: 9780226341552
Dimensions: 24mm x 16mm x 2mm
Weight: 595g
239 pages