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Title:

SEALED IN PARCHMENT
REREADINGS OF KNIGHTHOOD IN THE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS OF CHRETIEN DE TROYES

By:

Sandra Hindman

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0226341569

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9780226341569

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Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

1 August, 1994

Edition:

2nd ed.

Pages:

240

Description:

The 44 surviving manuscripts of the work of Chretien de Troyes pose a number of questions about who used these books and in what way. In "Sealed in Parchment", Sandra Hindman scrutinizes both text and images to reveal what the manuscripts can tell us about medieval society and politics.

Synopsis:

Chretien de Troyes was France's great medieval poet - inventor of the genre of courtly romance and popularizer of the Arthurian legend. The 44 surviving manuscripts of his work (ten of them illuminated) pose a number of questions about who used these books and in what way. In "Sealed in Parchment", Sandra Hindman scrutinizes both text and images to reveal what the manuscripts can tell us about medieval society and politics.

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104 halftones

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University of Chicago Press

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