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Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters: Essays in Honour of Janet Backhouse (British Library Studies in Medieval Culture)
  
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Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters: Essays in Honour of Janet Backhouse (British Library Studies in Medieval Culture) (Hardcover)

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This collection of essays published in honour of Janet Blackhouse, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at The British Library who retired in 1998 after a 35-year at the British Museum and Library. Twenty scholars and collegues have contributed essays reflecting Janet Blackhouse's own research interests, particularly in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, and in the interaction between English collectors and continental book producers. The essays are grouped in three main themes: "Interpreters", in which the manuscripts are explored through issues of iconography and style; "Makers" in which patrons, named artists or school and their relationships are discussed; and "Owners", in which the authors consider aspects of provenance and collecting history.

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Dr Scot McKendrick is a curator of Classical, Byzantine and Biblical Manuscripts at the British Library. He is series editor of The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture and Fellow of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Michelle Brown is Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at The British Library. Her previous publications include The Book of Cerne (UTP 1996), and The Historical Source Book for Scribes (with Patricia Lovett, UTP 1999). --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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