Books of hours reconsidered
By: edited by Sandra Hindman and James H. Marrow
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
Publisher: Harvey Miller Publishers; Harvey Miller; Brepols Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9781905375943
Subjects: Books of hours; Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts; Renaissance Illumination of books and manuscripts; Illustrations
Description: "For over three hunderd years, more Books of Hours were made than any other type of book, even the Bible. From c. 1225, when the first Books of Hours began to appear, to 1571, when during the Counter-Reformation Pope Pius V prohibited the use of all existing Books of Hours, nearly every European family of a certain means owned a Book of Hours. Books of Hours Reconsidered presents recent research on this "medieval bestseller" in twenty-one essays written by international scholars. The scholarship in this volume helps instill Books of Hours with new life and give them new meaning at a moment when interest in Books of Hours is on the rise"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-484) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: State of the Question / Sandra Hindman; title: I. The Prehistory of Books of Hours and the Growth of their Modern-Day Appreciation. Some Perspectives on the Origins of Books of Hours in France in the Thirteenth-Century / Adelaide Bennett ; Books of Hours and the Art Market from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day / Christopher de Hamel ; The Hours of Catherine of Cleves: The Manuscript that Changed the World / Roger S. Wieck; title: II. Centers of Production: England, Germany, and Italy. English Books of Hours c. 1240 - c.1480 / Nigel Morgan ; Another Perspective: The Book of Hours in Germany / Jeffrey Hamburger ; Italian Books of Hours and Prayer Books in the Fourteenth Century / Francesca Manzari.; title: III. Towards a History of Use. Beyond Saints: Variant Litany Readings and the Localization of Late Medieval Manuscript Books of Hours, the Case of the d'Orges Hours / Gregory T. Clark ; Books of Hours from the Northern Netherlands Reconsidered: the Uses of Utrecht and Windesheim and Geert Grote's Role as a Translator / Dr. Anne Korteweg.; title: IV. Problems of Workshops. Picardie-Hainaut: Quelques remarques sur les livres d'heures produits par le Maitre de Rambures et Simon Marmion / Marc Gil ; Manuscript Production in a Carmelite Convent: The Case of Cornelia von Wulfskercke / Anne Margreet W. As-Vijvers ; La circulation des modèles iconographiques: l'exemple d'un livre d'Heures parisien (BnF MS N.a.l.3115) / Marie-Françoise Damongeot ; Matteo de Milano; Between Ferrara and Rome - - The Hours of Dionora of Urbino (London, British Library, Yates Thompson 7) / Dr Mara Hofmann ; The Use of Stamps in Bruges Book Production / Saskia von Bergen ; Twins in Attribution: A New Fashion or a Means to Better Understanding? The Case of the Grandes Heures de Rohan / Eberhard König.; title: V. Cycles of Illustration and Their Texts. Superimposed Cycles of Marginal Illustration in Late Medieval Horae:; title: Function and History / James Marrow ; Decoration Programmes in Books of Hours by the Masters of the Dark Eyes / Dr. Klara H. Broekhuijsen ; Devotional Emphasis and Distinctive Variations in the Illustration of the Hours of the Virgin in Italian Books of Hours / Bronwyn Stocks.; title: VI. Books of Hours in the Age of Print. A Group of Hybrid Manuscripts Illustrated with Woodcuts from Antwerp / Todor Petev ; L'édition d'Heures du 21 avril 1505, une œuvre charnière dans la production de Thielman Kerver? / Thierry Claerr ; De la fortune de quatre bois gravés: de Paris 1519 à Rouen c. 1593 / Ariane Bergeron-Foote ; The Devotional Books of Claude Gouffier: The Morgan Hours (New York, Morgan Library and Museum, M. 538) / Elizabeth A.R. Brown ; Post-Mortem Inventories as a Source for the Production of Manuscripts and Printed Books of Hours / Mary and Richard Rouse.