Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence (British Library Studies in Medieval Culture) - Softcover

 
9780802080691: Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence (British Library Studies in Medieval Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802080693 ISBN 13: 9780802080691
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1997

Synopsis

This collection of commissioned essays re-evaluates the role of medieval women as readers, authors, and subjects of books, and the depiction of the relationships between women and books in medieval art. The fourteen essays cover such diverse topics as the development of a female audience for books, examinations of illuminations of and for women in books of hours, and how female authors viewed themselves, as well as the manufacture and collection of books and images by women.

Dealing specifically with the relationships between women and images, the volume will be of interest to art historians, feminist scholars, and historians alike.

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About the Authors

Lesley Smith teaches at Manchester College, Oxford.


Jane Taylor teaches at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford.

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0802080693
ISBN 13 
9780802080691
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
252
Editor
Smith Lesley, Taylor Jane

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