St. Albans and the Markyate Psalter

Kristen Collins is associate curator in the Department of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Matthew Fisher is associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

"...Readers interested in a deep dive of the Psalter itself will be thankful for such careful, detailed analyses and for such numerous, glistening, often full-page reproductions of the Psalter's pages and initials." --Lauren Mancia, The Medieval Review 18.10.08

• Abbreviations Illustrations Introduction by Kristen Collins and Matthew Fisher Saint Anselm's "Grand Tour" and the Full-Page Picture Cycle in the Markyate Psalter by T. A. Heslop The Patronage and Ownership of the Markyate Psalter by Nigel Morgan Handling the Letter by Aden Kumler The Repainting of Psalm 101 and Meaningful Change in the Markyate Psalter by Kristen Collins and Nancy Turner Voicing the Psalms in the Markyate Psalter: Devotional Experience and Experiments with Images and Words by Kerry Boeye Intercessory Prayer and the Initials of the Markyate Psalter by Rachel Koopmans La Vie de Saint Alexis and the Alexis Quire in the Crusading Context by Zrinka Stahuljak The Psalmist and the Saint: David, Alexis, and the Construction of Meaning in a Twelfth-Century Composite Manuscript by Kathryn Gerry Blindness and Insight, Seeing and Believing: Reading Two Emmaus Sequences from St. Albans by Morgan Powell Praying with Pictures in the Gough Psalter by Martin Kauffmann Madness and Innocence: Reading the Infancy Cycle of a Romanesque Vita Christi by Kristen Collins The St. Alban's Psalter Monograph of 1960: Fifty Years Later by J. J. G. Alexander