Picturing Kingship: History and Painting in the Psalter of Saint Louis

by Harvey Stahl

Picturing Kingship presents the first comprehensive art-historical study of the personal prayerbook of King Louis IX. The book approaches the St. Louis Psalter through a rich range of perspectives and methodologies and positions it within the contexts of its production and use. Not only is the manuscript's production and structure given detailed study, but the king's ways of handling his prayerbook--his habits of reading, looking, and praying--are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271028637
• ISBN13: 9780271028637
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 4.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.8" x 11.2"