Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books

Contents:
Part I The medieval backdrop
Between the panel painting and the manuscript illumination
The origins of parchment paintings

Part II The parchment painting as gift: four case studies from the Netherlands
Gifting corporate identity
A virgin for multiple uses
Figures, landscapes and text scrolls from South Holland
Ihesus-Maria clocks and wounds from Delft

Part III The many functions of the parchment painting
Parchment paintings as proxy saints
Parchment paintings collected in albums
The parchment painting as word-image
The parchment painting as ersatz eucharist
The parchment painting as altarpiece and souvenir
Parchment paintings for earning indulgences
The parchment painting for swearing oaths

Part IV, The limits of the parchment painting