TY - SER
AU - Christopher De Hamel
CY - London, England
ET - 2
LA - English
N1 - Contents:
I.; Books for Missionaries.; 7th-9th centuries: the written word as an essential tool for the early missionaries of Britain and Ireland, who produced books of extraordinary sophistication 

II.; Books for Emperors.; 8th-11th centuries: books as treasure and as luxurious objects of display and diplomatic gifts in the courts of Charlemagne and his successors 

III.; Books for Monks.; 12th century: the golden age of the monastic book, when monks in their scriptoria produced manuscripts for their libraries

IV.; Books for Students.; 13th century: the rise of the universities and the emergence of a professional book trade to meet the new need for textbooks 

V.; Books for Aristocrats.; 14th century: the Age of Chivalry -- a wealthy and newly literate aristocracy generating a new type of book, the secular romance 

VI.; Books for Everybody.; 15th century: the emergence of the Book of Hours as a devotional book for ordinary households as well as the aristocracy 

VII.; Books for Priests.; 13th-16th centuries: the Bibles, Missals, Breviaries, Psalters and other service books and handbooks that sustained the life of the Church 

VIII.; Books for Collectors.; 15th-16th centuries: the revival of classical learning and the creation of de luxe manuscripts for wealthy humanist patrons
PB - Phaidon
PP - London, England
PY - 1994
SN - 9780714829494
EP - 272 pp.
TI - A History of Illustrated Manuscripts
ER -