The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders

ISBN-13: 9780367887698 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 160 str.

Mary Dockray-Miller

Opis

Through analysis of the books and art objects Judith of Flanders commissioned and collected, Dockray-Miller demonstrates that Judith consciously deployed patronage as a cultural strategy in her political and marital maneuvers. Including full-colour reproductions from Monte Cassino MS 437 and Fulda Landesbibliothek MS Aa.21, this book is a fascinati

Recenzje

'The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders is an important contribution to Anglo-Saxon scholarship. It includes a wealth of sources, both primary and secondary. Each page is replete with informative footnotes, while the bibliography is exhaustive ... It will be of particular interest to medievalists and art historians, though students of all historical periods will appreciate the subject matter. The interdisciplinary approach successfully crosses traditional borders to present a unique kind of biography that informs about a specific woman, while inviting new ways of thinking about secular women’s activity in late Anglo-Saxon England and on the continent.' Hortulus

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: Before Northumbria; Lady of Northumbria, 1055-1065; The English books; Frontispiece portraits and exile; Collecting treasure as Lady of Ravensburg; The relic of the Holy Blood; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Mary Dockray-Miller is Professor of English at Lesley University, USA. She is also the editor of The Wilton Chronicle and is the author of Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England.