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Making Medieval Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art
Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages and can be seen in libraries and museums throughout Europe. But who were the skilled craftsmen who made these exquisite books? What precisely is parchment? How were medieval manuscripts designed and executed? What were the inks and pigm ...Show more
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
$70.00 AUD
Category: European
This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is like meeting a very famous person. We may all pretend that a well-known celebrity is no different from anyone else, and yet there is an undeniable thrill in actually meet ...Show more
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by de Hamel Christopher, Christopher de Hamel
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts. Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Cooper Prize. A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Gift Guide Pick Meetings with Remarkable ...Show more
The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket by Hamel, Christopher de
$27.00 AUD
Category: European
The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most famous events in European history. It inspired the largest pilgrim site in medieval Europe and many works of literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Anouilh's ...Show more
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel
$80.00 AUD
Category: History
The people who made, saved and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them ...Show more
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