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Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work

By: Jonathan James Graham Alexander

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Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work

By: Jonathan James Graham Alexander

Who were the medieval illuminators? How were their hand-produced books illustrated and decorated? In this beautiful book Jonathan Alexander presents a survey of manuscript illumination throughout Europe from the fourth to the sixteenth century. He discusses the social and historical context of the illuminators' lives, considers their methods of work, and presents a series of case studies to show the range and nature of the visual sources and the ways in which they were adapted, copied, or created anew. Alexander explains that in the early period, Christian monasteries and churches were the main centers for the copying of manuscripts, and so the majority of illuminators were monks working in and for their own monasteries. From the eleventh century, lay scribes and illuminators became increasingly numerous, and by the thirteenth century, professional illuminators dominated the field. During this later period, illuminators were able to travel in search of work and to acquire new ideas, they joined guilds with scribes or with artists in the cities, and their ranks included nuns and secular women. Work was regularly collaborative, and the craft was learned through an apprenticeship system. Alexander carefully analyzes surviving manuscripts and medieval treatises in order to explain the complex and time-consuming technical processes of illumination - its materials, methods, tools, choice of illustration, and execution. From rare surviving contracts, he deduces the preoccupation of patrons with materials and schedules. Illustrating his discussion with examples chosen from religious and secular manuscripts made all over Europe, Alexander recreates the astonishing variety and creativity ofmedieval illumination. His book will be a standard reference for years to come.

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Yale University Press

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0300060734

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9780300060737

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An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series

By: Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband

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An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series

By: Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband

A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

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793

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American Library Association

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0838909671

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9780838909676

The Nuclear Club

How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam

By: Jonathan R. Hunt

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The Nuclear Club

How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam

By: Jonathan R. Hunt

The Nuclear Club reveals how a coalition of powerful and developing states embraced global governance in hopes of a bright and peaceful tomorrow. While fears of nuclear war were ever-present, it was the perceived threat to their preeminence that drove Washington, Moscow, and London to throw their weight behind the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) banishing nuclear testing underground, the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco banning atomic armaments from Latin America, and the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) forbidding more countries from joining the most exclusive club on Earth. International society, the Cold War, and the imperial U.S. presidency were reformed from 1945 to 1970, when a global nuclear order was inaugurated, averting conflict in the industrial North and yielding what George Orwell styled a "peace that is no peace" everywhere else. Today the nuclear order legitimizes foreign intervention worldwide, empowering the nuclear club and, above all, the United States, to push sanctions and even preventive war against atomic outlaws, all in humanity's name.

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375

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Stanford University Press

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1503631729

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9781503631724

The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution

Vol. IV

By: Jonathan Elliot

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The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution

Vol. IV

By: Jonathan Elliot

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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3385526167

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9783385526167

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Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work

Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work

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Sequels

The Nuclear Club

The Nuclear Club

The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution

The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution

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