Antiquariat: Women and The Book, Jane H.M. Taylor, Lesley Smith (Hrsg.)

Assessing The Visual Evidence ( The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture )

Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence is part of a new series of monographs and collected essays, The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture, which takes manuscript studies as a focus for research in all aspects of medieval culture.
In this wide-ranging collection of essays, the authors adress some key questions in the relationship between women and books in the middle ages. How were women portrayed in medieval books? What books by medieval women survive? What kind of books did medieval women read?
Concentrating on the pictorial evidence, the fourteen papers collected here raise many complex and varied themes related to women’s creation, use and patronage of books, and the representation of women in them. Well illustrated from manuscript sources throughout, the volume makes a significant contribution to research in the field and will be stimulating reading for scholars and students of art history, medieval literature, medieval history and women’s studies.

Englische Ausgabe von 1997
Geb. mit Schutzumschlag, 287 Seiten, 18,5 x 25,5 cm