Picturing Kingship presents the first comprehensive art-historical study of the personal prayerbook of King Louis IX. The book approaches the St. Louis Psalter through a rich range of perspectives and methodologies and positions it within the contexts of its production and use. Not only is the manuscripts production and structure given detailed study, but the kings ways of handling his prayerbookhis habits of reading, looking, and prayingare also set forth in a compelling narrative of his view of his sacred responsibilities ...
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Picturing Kingship presents the first comprehensive art-historical study of the personal prayerbook of King Louis IX. The book approaches the St. Louis Psalter through a rich range of perspectives and methodologies and positions it within the contexts of its production and use. Not only is the manuscripts production and structure given detailed study, but the kings ways of handling his prayerbookhis habits of reading, looking, and prayingare also set forth in a compelling narrative of his view of his sacred responsibilities as king. In the first half of the book, Stahl investigates the Psalters physical construction and development within the context of manuscript production in thirteenth-century Paris. The second half looks at the Psalters thematic and iconographic workings and the role of the kings adviserVincent of Beauvaisin the Psalters shaping. Most important, though, the author delves into the meanings the Psalter might have held for the king, who was a crusader and so devout a Christian that he was canonized by Boniface VIII. Stahl makes it clear that the Psalter, already recognized as one of the true masterworks of thirteenth-century French culture, should also be recognized as a significant force in Louis IXs life and reign.
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