Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Spain (Hardcover: 304 pages)
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Product Details: Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Spain
| Author: | Mireille Mentre |
| Foreword by: | Pierre Riche |
| Format: | Hardcover: 304 pages. |
| Publisher: | Todtri Book Pub (02/01/2004) |
| ISBN: | 1577173295 |
| ISBN13: | 9781577173298 |
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Publisher Notes: Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Spain
- At the end of the first millennium--when many expected the world to end--the Christian communities of Spain, still dominated by Islam, experienced a profound spiritual crisis. To make sense of their predicament, they turned to The Book of Revelation by St. John the Divine, and commentaries on this work were circulated in a variety of illuminated manuscripts of extraordinary expressive power. More than twenty of these manuscripts survive, dating from between 900 and 1100, all rendered in a colorful style known as Mozarabic. Cut off from the rest of Europe and obsessed by the imminence of God's judgment, the creators of these books invented a world peopled by angelic warriors, demons and beasts, exotic birds and serpents, and luxuriant trees.
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