Maidie Hilmo was the recipient of two prestigious dissertation awards for the study upon which this book is based. In 2002 she was awarded the Leonard E. Boyle Prize from the Canadian Society of Medievalists for the best PhD dissertation in medieval studies in Canada and also the Governor General's Gold Medal for graduating with the highest academic standing at the PhD level at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). She is the author of articles on late medieval illustrated literary manuscripts and the co-editor of two volumes on the medieval reading process, The Medieval Professional Reader at Work: Evidence from the Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and Gower (Victoria: English Literary Studies, 2001) and The Medieval Reader: Reception and Cultural History in the Late Medieval Manuscript (New York: AMS Press, 2001).

'... a very important examination of medieval vernacular book illustration... It is a 'must purchase' for the medieval studies library and a 'should purchase' for all scholarly art libraries serving advanced undergraduate, graduate students, and faculty.' Art Documentation '... a valuable resource for studying the intersections of medieval English literature and culture... offers much to think about and a useful model for ways of linking art and text.' The Medieval Review '... thoughtful and intriguing... offers a new understanding of many of these images and is a valuable contribution to the study of image/text relationships in manuscript culture.' Sharp 'In an age of ever-narrowing dissertation topics it is stimulating to come upon one that casts its net from the eighth century to the fifteenth and engages a broad range of texts, topics, and manuscripts... Throughout, this study vigorously addresses both old and some new questions and does so with evident attention, learning and insight... few recent scholars have addressed them with the passionate seriousness that is at the hear of this study.' Speculum

• Contents: Preface; Epigraph; Introduction, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton; Reading medieval images; Visual and verbal manifestations of the dual nature of Christ on the Ruthwell Cross; The wisdom and power of the creative word: images for meditation and transformation of self and society in late Anglo-Saxon England; The revival of the vernacular and the illustrated Caligula, Auchinleck and Vernon manuscripts; Creating a visual narrative of the spiritual journey to the New Jerusalem in the Pearl manuscript; Framing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales for the aristocratic readers of the Ellesmere manuscript; Bibliography; Indexes.

Maidie Hilmo was the recipient of two prestigious dissertation awards for the study upon which this book is based. In 2002 she was awarded the Leonard E. Boyle Prize from the Canadian Society of Medievalists for the best PhD dissertation in medieval studies in Canada and also the Governor General's Gold Medal for graduating with the highest academic standing at the PhD level at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). She is the author of articles on late medieval illustrated literary manuscripts and the co-editor of two volumes on the medieval reading process, The Medieval Professional Reader at Work: Evidence from the Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and Gower (Victoria: English Literary Studies, 2001) and The Medieval Reader: Reception and Cultural History in the Late Medieval Manuscript (New York: AMS Press, 2001).

'... a very important examination of medieval vernacular book illustration... It is a 'must purchase' for the medieval studies library and a 'should purchase' for all scholarly art libraries serving advanced undergraduate, graduate students, and faculty.' Art Documentation '... a valuable resource for studying the intersections of medieval English literature and culture... offers much to think about and a useful model for ways of linking art and text.' The Medieval Review '... thoughtful and intriguing... offers a new understanding of many of these images and is a valuable contribution to the study of image/text relationships in manuscript culture.' Sharp 'In an age of ever-narrowing dissertation topics it is stimulating to come upon one that casts its net from the eighth century to the fifteenth and engages a broad range of texts, topics, and manuscripts... Throughout, this study vigorously addresses both old and some new questions and does so with evident attention, learning and insight... few recent scholars have addressed them with the passionate seriousness that is at the hear of this study.' Speculum

• Contents: Preface; Epigraph; Introduction, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton; Reading medieval images; Visual and verbal manifestations of the dual nature of Christ on the Ruthwell Cross; The wisdom and power of the creative word: images for meditation and transformation of self and society in late Anglo-Saxon England; The revival of the vernacular and the illustrated Caligula, Auchinleck and Vernon manuscripts; Creating a visual narrative of the spiritual journey to the New Jerusalem in the Pearl manuscript; Framing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales for the aristocratic readers of the Ellesmere manuscript; Bibliography; Indexes.

Maidie Hilmo was the recipient of two prestigious dissertation awards for the study upon which this book is based. In 2002 she was awarded the Leonard E. Boyle Prize from the Canadian Society of Medievalists for the best PhD dissertation in medieval studies in Canada and also the Governor General's Gold Medal for graduating with the highest academic standing at the PhD level at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). She is the author of articles on late medieval illustrated literary manuscripts and the co-editor of two volumes on the medieval reading process, The Medieval Professional Reader at Work: Evidence from the Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and Gower (Victoria: English Literary Studies, 2001) and The Medieval Reader: Reception and Cultural History in the Late Medieval Manuscript (New York: AMS Press, 2001).

'... a very important examination of medieval vernacular book illustration... It is a 'must purchase' for the medieval studies library and a 'should purchase' for all scholarly art libraries serving advanced undergraduate, graduate students, and faculty.' Art Documentation '... a valuable resource for studying the intersections of medieval English literature and culture... offers much to think about and a useful model for ways of linking art and text.' The Medieval Review '... thoughtful and intriguing... offers a new understanding of many of these images and is a valuable contribution to the study of image/text relationships in manuscript culture.' Sharp 'In an age of ever-narrowing dissertation topics it is stimulating to come upon one that casts its net from the eighth century to the fifteenth and engages a broad range of texts, topics, and manuscripts... Throughout, this study vigorously addresses both old and some new questions and does so with evident attention, learning and insight... few recent scholars have addressed them with the passionate seriousness that is at the hear of this study.' Speculum

• Contents: Preface; Epigraph; Introduction, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton; Reading medieval images; Visual and verbal manifestations of the dual nature of Christ on the Ruthwell Cross; The wisdom and power of the creative word: images for meditation and transformation of self and society in late Anglo-Saxon England; The revival of the vernacular and the illustrated Caligula, Auchinleck and Vernon manuscripts; Creating a visual narrative of the spiritual journey to the New Jerusalem in the Pearl manuscript; Framing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales for the aristocratic readers of the Ellesmere manuscript; Bibliography; Indexes.