Reading Texts and Images

Bernard Muir is Reader in Medieval Language and Literature in the English Department, University of Melbourne. His publications include The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry (Exeter) and A Pre-Conquest English Prayerbook (Boydell).

... this is a magnificent feast of a volume, handsomely printed on coated paper and lavishly illustrated. The colour printing is of very high quality, doing ample justice not only to the reproductions of medieval images but also to the striking painting... Given the physical beauty of Reading Texts and Images, it is a pleasure to record that the scholarly essays within it are also of the highest quality. The contributors ... include some of the best-known names in the field of medieval manuscript studies. Bulletin of International Medieval Research, no. 11

• ContentsMargaret Beaufort's Italian Manuscript of the Name of Christ Devotions, Janet BackhouseThe Dance of Death in Art - Visual Representations of Men, Women and Children in Renaissance Society, Dagmar EichbergerTowards Interpreting the Iconography of the Gospel of St Luke in the Book of Kells, Bernard MuirThe River of Life in the Apse Mosaics of S. Maria Maggiore in Rome, Joan Barclay-LloydA Scribe and a Prayerbook - a New Approach to the Wharncliffe Hours, Thomas KrenThe Illustration of the Psalms in Fourteenth-Century English Manuscripts - The Case of the Bohun Family Psalters, Lucy Freeman SandlerThe Rimini Antiphonal - palimpsest music and Renaissance liturgical practice, John StinsonReading the Body of a Plague Saint - Narrative Altarpieces and Devotional Images of St. Sebastian in Renaissance Art, Louise MarshallMinor Manuscript-Decoration from the West of England in the Twelfth Century, Rodney ThomsonPatrons and Devotional Images in English Illuminated Manuscripts of the International Gothic, Nigel MorganNew Observations on the Dutch Bible (c.1419) in Auckland Public Library, Christopher de HamelSacred and secular in the Wharncliffe Hours, Jonathan Alexander.