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St. Albans and the Markyate Psalter: Seeing and Reading in Twelfth-Century England

Contributor(s): Collins, Kristen (Editor), Fisher, Matthew (Editor)

ISBN: 9781580442589

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

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Pub Date: September 30, 2017

Dewey: 745.670942

LCCN: 2017028660

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.00" H x 10.30" L x 8.50" W ( 3.45 lbs) 392 pages

BISAC Categories:

Art | Movements | Medieval | History | Europe | Techniques | Calligraphy

Series: Studies in Iconography: Themes and Variations

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: This collection offers bold new readings of the images, composition, reception, and contexts of the beautiful, twelfth-century Markyate Psalter.

Brief description: Kristen Collins is associate curator in the Department of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Matthew Fisher is associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Review Quotes: "...Readers interested in a deep dive of the Psalter itself will be thankful for such careful, detailed analyses and for such numerous, glistening, often full-page reproductions of the Psalter's pages and initials." Lauren Mancia, The Medieval Review 18.10.08

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