Excavating the Medieval Image : Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences: Essays in Honor of Sandra Hindman (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction: Excavation and image, Nina A. Rowe and David S. Areford; Part 1 Texts and Pictures: Portraits and counterfeits: Villard de Honnecourt and 13th-century theories of representation, Stephen Perkinson; The limits of text and image? Matthew Paris's final project, the Vitae duorum Offarum, as a historical romance, Cynthia Hahn; Making the past present in Laurent de Premierfait's translation of De senectute, Anne D. Hedeman; Illuminating the Arras Mystery Play, Laura Weigert with the collaboration of Pascale Charron. Part 2 Women and Power: 'Richement et pompeusement par : the collier of Margaret of York and the politics of love in late medieval Burgundy, Jean C. Wilson; The horse and the hawk: representations of Mary of Burgundy as sovereign, Ann M. Roberts; Recycling Radegund: identity and ambition in the Breviary of Anne de Prye, V nique P. Day; Manual of dynastic history or devotional aid? Eleanor of Toledo's Book of Hours, Rowan Watson; 'Parlant de moy': manuscripts of La Coche by Marguerite of Navarre, Sherry C.M. Lindquist. Part 3 Art and Artists: Giovan Pietro da Birago, illuminator of Milan: some initials cut from choir books, Jonathan J.G. Alexander; Post Poyet, Roger S. Wieck; Ungrateful dead: Bruegel's Triumph of Death re-examined, Larry Silver. Part 4 Manuscripts and Modernity: Introducing Monsieur Gonfond, a 'Peasant-Illuminator' from St-R -de-Provence, Charlotte Daudon Lacaze; Genesis in Vienna: the Sarajevo Haggadah and the invention of Jewish art, Michael Batterman. Appendix: Bibliography of writings by Sandra Hindman; Index.