Author : Sandra Hindman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226341569
Sealed in Parchment by Sandra Hindman Pdf
Chretien de Troyes was France's great medieval poet—inventor of the genre of courtly romance and popularizer of the Arthurian legend. The forty-four 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.