De hamel chistopher (3 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 240 colour illustrations, many full-page. Pictorial paperback covers. A fine copy contained within a decorative cloth box made by the calligrapher Ann Otley. 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.…

Zustand: fine. vendeur professionnel. envoi soigne en 24/48h. le livre peut presenter de tres legers signes d'usure, petites rayures ou imperfections esthetiques.