The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Manuscripts

The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts ManuscriptsMedieval manuscripts can tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Many have survived because of an authors statuspart of the reason we have so much of Chaucers writing, for example, is because he was a London based government official first and a poet second. Other works by the less influential have narrowly avoided ruin, like the book of illiterate Margery Kempe, found in a country house closet, the cover nibbled on by mice. Scholar

Clifton Hood sharpens this characterization by merging a history of the New York economy in the eighteenth century with the story of Wall Street's emergence as an international financial center in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

richly ornate with burnished gold leaf

dark backgrounds and rendered with immense physical as well as psychological scrutiny

celebrating the boundless possibilities that develop inside the white borders of the original instant photograph

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broadcaster and musician

Bursting with quirky facts

there are references to him drinking "teas" made from herbs he gathered in nature

Christian Gastgeber

Speaking Volumes presents a fascinating selection of books in both public and private collections whose individual histories tell surprising and illuminating stories

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It also examines his visionary prophetic books