, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, Pages: xxvi + 378, Size:152 x 229 mm, Illustrations:232 col., Language: English. ISBN 9780888442420.
Summary The arts of the book from central Europe often provide a mirror both for imperial aspirations as well as for the complex pluralities of societies on the ground. The essays in this collection explore material written in Czech, German, Hebrew, and Latin, made for both religious and non-religious contexts in the ninth, twelfth, and fifteenth centuries, highlighting the range and depth of the Central European corpus as well as how integral such material has been to the formation of medieval holdings in America. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures Contributors Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Beatrice Kitzinger, and Joshua O'Driscoll Central European Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in American Collections: An Introduction Patronage Lenses 1 Heidi C. Gearhart Anonymity Rules? An Unknown Abbot in the Martyrology and Rule of Gladbach (Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.563) 2 Shirin Fozi The Helmarshausen Psalter in Baltimore: Thinking Beyond Henry the Lion 3 Andrea Worm Devotion and Reflection in the Claricia Psalter (Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.26) Interregional Networks, Intellectual Networks 4 Arthur Westwell The Local Lives of a Liturgical Manuscript: St-Amand and Chelles in the History of the Franco-Saxon Sacramentary in The Morgan Library and Museum 5 Francesca Pistone Astronomy, Book Painting, and the Intellectual Network between Lake Constance and the Loire 6 Martin Roland Illuminated Charters in Public Space: A Case Study and Perspectives 7 Marina Bernasconi Reusser From Engelberg, Switzerland to Conception, Missouri: Fragments as Vehicles of History and Culture Vernacular Experiments 8 Nina Rowe Nero's Pregnancy and the Body Politic in Late Medieval Regensburg 9 Anna Boreczky King Apollonius of Tyre in Augsburg and Ulm: Early Modern Illustrations of a Late Antique Tale and the Use of Reused Images 10 Laura Ackerman Smoller The Illustrated Book as Textual Commentary: Sebastian Brant's Edition of the Revelations of Pseudo-Methodius Spotlight I. The Prayer Book of George of Pod?brady 11 Jan Dienstbier The Prayer Book of George of Pod?brady and the Advent of the Late Gothic Style in Prague: Reevaluating "Valentin Noh" 12 Jessica L. Savage Queen of Hearts: Patronage and Personalization in the 1466 Prayer Book of George of Pod?brady Spotlight II.The Washington Giant Bible 13 John Jefferson The Fruit of Reform: How the Bursfelde Movement Yielded One of the Most Sumptuous German Bibles of the Fifteenth Century 14 Christoph Winterer The "Giant Bible" in Washington, DC: Perspectives from Art History and History of the Book Spotlight III. Central Europe as Ashkenaz 15 Adam S. Cohen And Sharon Liberman Mintz Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts from Ashkenaz to America Notes Index of Manuscripts Index of Incunabula, Early Printed Books, Broadsides, and Single-Leaf Woodcuts General Index