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.

Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to social constraints flourished.

An introduction to 15th century Italian painting and the social history behind it, arguing that the two are interlinked and that the conditions of the time helped fashion distinctive elements in the painter's style.

Classic study of the rise and flowering of heraldry 12-13c, with Arthurian references.

Explores the cultural framework within which changes in agricultural technology and economic organization occur and the ways in which changes in the social fabric influence attitudes toward rural work and the peasantry.

A consideration of medieval work is therefore one of medieval society in all its creativity and complexity and that is precisely what this volume provides.

A detailed and highly illustrated survey of medieval book hands, essential for graduate students and scholars of the period.

The contributions of this volume deal with these issues by focusing on book painting between the 10th and 16th centuries.