Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World de Hamel Christopher Pevná vazba
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World de Hamel Christopher Pevná vazba An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through…
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World de Hamel Christopher Pevná vazba
An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts.Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Cooper Prize.Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. He traces the elaborate journeys that these exceptionally precious artifacts have made through time and shows us how they have been copied, how they have been embroiled in politics, how Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and about the modern world, too.In so doing, de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, and collectors.