This is a book about the permeability of medieval manuscripts and their transformation into something more responsive to their owners’ lives and concerns. It uses the author’s extensive experience [...] Read More
14th and 15th Centuries
An Allegory of Divine Love: The Netherlandish Blockbook Canticum Canticorum (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts Series, 10)
An Allegory of Divine Love emerged out of the author and her husband Irving Lavin’s The Liturgy of Love: Images from the Song of Songs in the Art of Cimabue, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt, The Franklin [...] Read More
Space, Place and Ornament: The Function of Landscape in Medieval Manuscript Illumination
Margaret Goehring proposes the need for a new paradigm for the study of medieval landscapes, one that moves beyond anachronistic concepts of pictorial landscape formulated in Renaissance and [...] Read More
Staging the Court of Burgundy (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History 69)
Staging the Court of Burgundy. Proceedings of the Conference “The Splendour of Burgundy” presents a selection of thirty-three essays delivered at a three-day symposium in Bruges that accompanied the [...] Read More
Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book: Breydenbach’s Peregrinatio from Venice to Jerusalem
Elizabeth Ross writes convincing arguments in elegant prose. Moreover, her book is a refreshing, jargon-free study, dripping with ideas and analysis. Penn State Press has outdone itself to produce [...] Read More
‘A la mode italienne’. Commerce du luxe et diplomatie dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux, 1477-1530. Edition criticque de documents de la Chambre des comptes de Lille
This book comes as a surprise, as it is an unusual book, both in terms of its subject matter and in terms of its method. The Italian art historian Federica Veratelli undertook several years of [...] Read More