In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention and the
Cambridge University Library's collection of illuminated manuscripts is of international significance. It originates in the medieval university and stands alongside the holdings of the colleges and the Fitzwilliam Museum. The University Library contains major European examples of medieval illumination from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, with acknowledged masterpieces of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance book art, as well as illuminated literary texts, including the first complete Chaucer manuscript. This catalogue provides scholars and researchers easy access to the University Library's illuminated manuscripts, evaluating the importance of many of them for the very first time. It contains descriptions of famous manuscripts, for example the Life of Edward the Confessor attributed to Matthew Paris, as well as hundreds of lesser-known items. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the catalogue contains descriptions of individual manuscripts with up-to-date assessments of their style,
Describes the creation of paintings in medieval churches, discusses the artists and their influences, and examines the social and economic context within which the medieval painters worked
Peterborough Cathedral - one of the finest Romanesque Cathedrals in northern Europe - was subjected to the ravages of fire on 22 November 2001. This was all the more tragic as it came at the end of a
Considered one of the most beautiful medieval paintings, the Retable, according to recent consensus, was probably the high altarpiece of Henry III's Abbey church and might have been in place for the d
