{"product_id":"meetings-with-remarkable-manuscripts-twelve-journeys-into-the-medieval-world","title":"Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Cooper Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMeetings with Remarkable Manuscripts \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the least likely and most wonderful books I have ever read. . . . a book of wonders.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"De Hamel is a man of extraordinary erudition and easy charm; his book asks many questions of the past, and invokes many mysteries.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMeetings with Remarkable Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003e is miles away from academic dry-as-dust scholarship. You'll love learning from it.\" --\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeetings with Remarkable Manuscripts \u003c\/i\u003eis a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eand about the modern world, too. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn so doing, de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, and collectors. He traces the elaborate journeys that these exceptionally precious artifacts have made through time and shows us how they have been copied, how they have been embroiled in politics, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty and as symbols of national identity, and who has owned them or lusted after them (and how we can tell). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the earliest book in medieval England to the incomparable Book of Kells to the oldest manuscript of the \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, these encounters tell a narrative of intellectual culture and art over the course of a millennium. Two of the manuscripts visited are now in libraries of North America, the Morgan Library in New York and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, \u003ci\u003eMeetings with Remarkable Manuscripts \u003c\/i\u003eallows us to experience some of the greatest works of art in our culture to give us a different perspective on history and on how we come by knowledge.","brand":"Christopher de Hamel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47277641171180,"sku":"9780143110804","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780143110804.jpg?v=1770241002","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/meetings-with-remarkable-manuscripts-twelve-journeys-into-the-medieval-world","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}