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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
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Books > Gift Books > Gift Books
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| Author/Artist: |
CHRISTOPHER DE HAMEL |
| ISBN / ID: |
9780241003046 |
| Publisher: |
Allen & Unwin |
| Binding: |
HARDBACK |
| Price: |
AU$69.99 |
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| Description: |
The purpose of this book by Christopher De Hamel, is to invite the reader into intimate conversations with twelve of the most famous manuscripts in existence. Readers are encouraged to explore with the author what these manuscripts reveal to us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and sometimes about the modern world as well.
Splendidly illustrated, Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, provides a virtual journey to some of the world’s greatest collections, from Copenhagen to Florence, Munich to St Petersberg. De Hamel contends that encountering an original medieval manuscript is in some ways like encountering a famous person. Biblio-sleuthing is engaged quite meticulously as the author seeks to divine the hidden “character” of the celebrity documents under his scrutiny. Erasures and scrapings, a scribal error here, a jumbled foliation there, can tell us much about the scholarly disputes, patrons and politics of the times.
The book touches on religion, art, literature, music, science and history. At the end of it, the reader is certain to have a gained a slightly different perspective on history and how we come by knowledge. Critics describe it as “an endlessly fascinating and enjoyable book” (Neil Macgregor) and one that is “full of delights.” (Tom Stoppard).
Recommended uses
Scholars and students of secular and religious history
Art critics and students of art and art history |
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