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Art, Identity, and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England: Three Women Patrons and Their Books of Hours  
Author: Kathryn A. A. Smith
ISBN: 0802086918
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
   Book Review
Art, Identity, and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England: Three Women Patrons and Their Books of Hours

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Through detailed analysis of the manuscripts' visual and textual programmes, and by embedding the books within a rich interpretive context constructed from religious and secular literature, sermons, and a broad range of artistic and historical evidence, the author examines the ways in which the three books of hours mediated the devotional experience of their owners and constructed and confirmed their sense of personal, familial, local and social identity. The study explores the potential functions of illustrated books of hours - as vehicles for penitent self-examination, familial and dynastic commemoration and legitimation, and instruction of one's children - and reveals how the manuscripts' contents and design accommodated these functions. This book offers new insights into the issues of female patronage and book ownership, lay literacy, and the roles and uses of imagery in later medieval religion.

SYNOPSIS

In this exhaustive analysis, Smith (art history, New York U.) uses three richly decorated 14th-century English devotional manuscripts (the De Lisle Hours, the De Bois Hours, and the Neville de Hornby Hours) to deduce the religious practice, among other subjects, of their owners, Margaret de Beauchamp, Hawisia de Bois, and Isabel de Byron. Among the topics Smith describes are the lives and family history of each patron, the concepts of time that are evidenced in their books of hours, and the interplay of text and image. The book is well illustrated with a series of color plates, and many b&w plates. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

     



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