Sealed in Parchment

Rereadings of Knighthood in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes

Sandra Hindman author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:1st Aug '94

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Chretien de Troyes was France's great medieval poet - inventor of the genre of courtly romance and popularizer of the Arthurian legend. The 44 surviving manuscripts of his work (ten of them illuminated) pose a number of questions about who used these books and in what way. In "Sealed in Parchment", Sandra Hindman scrutinizes both text and images to reveal what the manuscripts can tell us about medieval society and politics.

ISBN: 9780226341552

Dimensions: 24mm x 16mm x 2mm

Weight: 595g

239 pages