[Antir_scribes] newish luttrell psalter book

[FV/Rafaella]

by the lady who brings us other good scribal/word
stuff. --Rafaella

The World of the Luttrell Psalter
by Michelle P. Brown
The British Library
ISBN: 0-7123-4959-6

The Luttrell family and their folk
When, where and why was the Luttrell Psalter made?
Depictions of the Luttrells and their world
Planners, artists, scribes
People in the landscape
Wild things: the grotesques
Description of the manuscript

Exploring this opulent Psalter from its dynamic social
and religious 
context, Michelle Brown unravels its myriad layers of
meaning, tracing 
a 
close and constant interplay between daily and eternal
realities. By 
careful analysis of its pages, she reveals the hopes
and fears, social 
ambitions and political allegiances, moral anxieties
and all-pervasive 
spiritual aspirations of the Luttrells and their folk.
Illustrated with 
90 colour images, The World of the Luttrell Psalter
offers fresh 
insight 
into one of the most arresting and remarkable of
medieval manuscripts.


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