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 ...
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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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Add this copy of Women and the Book Assessing the Visual Evidence to cart. $165.00, very good condition, Sold by Michener & Rutledge Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Baldwin City, KS, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0802042163. Owner info to inside front cover, paper age-toning very slightly around the edges, otherwise text clean and tight; light wear to dust jacket; British Library Studies In Medieval Culture; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 252 pages.
