Mary Dockray-Miller

The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through analysis of the books and art objects Judith of Flanders commissioned and collected, Dockray-Miller demonstrates that Judith consciously deployed patronage as a cultural strategy in her political and marital maneuvers. Including full-colour reproductions from Monte Cassino MS 437 and Fulda Landesbibliothek MS Aa.21, this book is a fascinating account of a woman who thrived in spite of being on the losing side of the Norman Conquest and the Investiture Controversy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781409468356
• ISBN-10: 1409468356
• Artikelnr.: 44636890

Autorenporträt

Mary Dockray-Miller is Professor of English at Lesley University, USA. She is also the editor of The Wilton Chronicle and is the author of Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Before Northumbria
Lady of Northumbria, 1055-1065
The English books
Frontispiece portraits and exile
Collecting treasure as Lady of Ravensburg
The relic of the Holy Blood
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.

Rezensionen

'The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders is an important contribution to Anglo-Saxon scholarship. It includes a wealth of sources, both primary and secondary. Each page is replete with informative footnotes, while the bibliography is exhaustive ... It will be of particular interest to medievalists and art historians, though students of all historical periods will appreciate the subject matter. The interdisciplinary approach successfully crosses traditional borders to present a unique kind of biography that informs about a specific woman, while inviting new ways of thinking about secular women's activity in late Anglo-Saxon England and on the continent.' Hortulus