The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts by Mary Wellesley

The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts

Mary Wellesley

352 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction art history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Medieval manuscripts can tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Many have survived because of an author's status--part of the reason we have so much of Chaucer's writing, for example, is because he was a London-based government of...

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