Sealed in Parchment: Rereadings of Knighthood in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes

by Sandra Hindman

Book Overview

Chretien de Troyes was France's great medieval poet--inventor of the genre of courtly romance and popularizer of the Arthurian legend. The forty-four surviving manuscripts of his work (ten of them illuminated) pose a number of questions about who used these books and in what way. In Sealed in Parchment , Sandra Hindman scrutinizes both text and images to reveal what the manuscripts can tell us about medieval society and politics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226341550
• ISBN13: 9780226341552
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"