The Art of Reform in Eleventh-Century Flanders: Gerard of Cambrai, Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Saint-Vaast Bible
Biographical note
Diane J. Reilly, Ph.D. (1999) in Art History, University of Toronto, is Assistant Professor of Art History at the Hope School of Fine Art, Indiana University, Bloomington. She has published several studies of the history of Medieval manuscripts, their patrons and political contexts.
Readership
Academic and research libraries, as well as historians of medieval art, manuscripts, monasticism, ecclesiastical reform, and the political and intellectual history of France, Flanders and Germany.
Table of contents
List of Plates
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Saint-Vaast Bible and Medieval Arras
2. The Lectern Bible and Eleventh-Century Monastic Reform
3. Priestly Prophets
4. Kings, Princes and Politics
5. Lessons for a Queen
6. Continuity and Change in the Saint-Vaast Scriptorium
Appendix
Bibliography
Indices
Plates and Figures
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Saint-Vaast Bible and Medieval Arras
2. The Lectern Bible and Eleventh-Century Monastic Reform
3. Priestly Prophets
4. Kings, Princes and Politics
5. Lessons for a Queen
6. Continuity and Change in the Saint-Vaast Scriptorium
Appendix
Bibliography
Indices
Plates and Figures
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