Women, Manuscripts and Identity in Northern Europe, 13501550

Zusatztext 'The area of medieval women's literacy! patronage! and engagement with books and visual culture more broadly is one that warrants continued expansion! and Joni M. Hand's book undoubtedly makes an important contribution to this field. Furthermore! it also stands as a worthy model of scholarly work that straddles medieval and Renaissance or Early Modern studies. Especially in art history! these fields remain surprisingly and unfortunately distanced from one another! and projects like this one are key to alleviating this gap.' Sehepunkte 'By looking deeply at these manuscripts! the reader is able to learn much about the self-expression and self-definition of the women who commissioned and used these materials.' Magistra 'Hand's study will have special appeal to graduate students and scholars new to the area of women's patronage studies in this French milieu! for she provides encapsulated biographies of the many women who owned! commissioned! gave! inherited! or even borrowed manuscript books.' Speculum '...a thoroughgoing survey of female book-owners in the late Middle Ages... Hand's detailed examination of specific examples! generously illustrated! allows her to explore the personal meaning that many of these books may have had for their owners.' Medium Aevum 'Readers from many disciplines will appreciate the extensive overview Hand provides ... intriguing associations between the images! the women who owned the manuscripts! and the richness of their religious and personal context.' Early Modern Women Journal 'Hand's argument is compelling. She offers to art historians! book historians! and literary scholars both a useful synthesis of existing scholarship and an insightful new perspective on how noblewomen actively participated in the literary and cultural life of their courts.' SHARP News Informationen zum Autor Joni M. Hand is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Southeast Missouri State University. She specializes in manuscripts produced in Northern Europe and gender in the late Middle Ages. Klappentext Author Joni M. Hand sheds light on the reasons women of the Valois courts from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century commissioned devotional manuscripts. Visually interpreting the non-text elements - portraits, coats of arms, and marginalia - as well as the texts, Hand explores how the manuscripts were used to express the women's religious, political, and/or genealogical concerns. This study is arranged thematically according to the method in which the owner is represented. Zusammenfassung This study sheds light on the reasons women of the Valois courts from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century commissioned devotional manuscripts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Female book collectors in the Valois courts; Women and religious manuscripts: identity expressed through patronage; Visual demonstrations of identity; Women and legacy: the generational transference of identity; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index....

'The area of medieval women's literacy, patronage, and engagement with books and visual culture more broadly is one that warrants continued expansion, and Joni M. Hand's book undoubtedly makes an important contribution to this field. Furthermore, it also stands as a worthy model of scholarly work that straddles medieval and Renaissance or Early Modern studies. Especially in art history, these fields remain surprisingly and unfortunately distanced from one another, and projects like this one are key to alleviating this gap.' Sehepunkte 'By looking deeply at these manuscripts, the reader is able to learn much about the self-expression and self-definition of the women who commissioned and used these materials.' Magistra 'Hand's study will have special appeal to graduate students and scholars new to the area of women's patronage studies in this French milieu, for she provides encapsulated biographies of the many women who owned, commissioned, gave, inherited, or even borrowed manuscript books.' Speculum '...a thoroughgoing survey of female book-owners in the late Middle Ages... Hand's detailed examination of specific examples, generously illustrated, allows her to explore the personal meaning that many of these books may have had for their owners.' Medium Aevum 'Readers from many disciplines will appreciate the extensive overview Hand provides ... intriguing associations between the images, the women who owned the manuscripts, and the richness of their religious and personal context.' Early Modern Women Journal 'Hand's argument is compelling. She offers to art historians, book historians, and literary scholars both a useful synthesis of existing scholarship and an insightful new perspective on how noblewomen actively participated in the literary and cultural life of their courts.' SHARP News

Autorentext
Joni M. Hand is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Southeast Missouri State University. She specializes in manuscripts produced in Northern Europe and gender in the late Middle Ages.

Klappentext
Author Joni M. Hand sheds light on the reasons women of the Valois courts from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century commissioned devotional manuscripts. Visually interpreting the non-text elements - portraits, coats of arms, and marginalia - as well as the texts, Hand explores how the manuscripts were used to express the women's religious, political, and/or genealogical concerns. This study is arranged thematically according to the method in which the owner is represented.

Inhalt
Contents: Introduction; Female book collectors in the Valois courts; Women and religious manuscripts: identity expressed through patronage; Visual demonstrations of identity; Women and legacy: the generational transference of identity; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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