Illumination of books and manuscripts--History
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
"This scholarly, edited volume addresses decorated books from around the world produced during the period of 500 to 1500"--Provided by publisher.
Director's Foreword / Timothy Potts -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue / Bryan C. Keene -- Introduction: Manuscripts and Their Outlook on the World / Bryan C. Keene -- A Timeline for a Global Middle Ages: Linear Time and Modes of Remembering the Past / Morgan Conger -- Glimpsing a Global Middle Ages / Bryan C. Keene -- World Views and the Map Makers' Craft / Jerry Brotton -- Stories and Pictures from All the World: South Asian Book Arts from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Centuries / Alka Patel -- The Middle Ages, Middle America, and the Book / Byron Ellsworth Hamann -- Where Is Medieval Ethiopia? Mapping Ethiopic Studies within Medieval Studies / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- Manuscripts and the Medieval Tropics / Alex J. West -- Case Study, Mapping Global Middle Ages / Asa Simon Mittman -- The Intermediality of "the Book": Bound, Rolled, and Folded Textual Objects / Bryan C. Keene -- Buddhist Illuminated Manuscripts in East Asia / J. Soren Edgren -- Case Study, Traveling Medicine: Medieval Ethiopian Amulet Scrolls and Practitioners' Handbooks / Eyob Derillo -- The Painter's Line on Paper and Clay: Maya Codices and Codex-Style Vessels from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries / Megan E. O'Neil -- Case Study, Missionary Effects and Messianic Aspirations at the Court of Shah ʻAbbas I / Sussan Babaie -- Reproducing the Resurrection: From European Prints to Armenian Manuscripts / Sylvie L. Merian -- Identity: Finding One's Place in the Medieval World / Bryan C. Keene -- Imperial Brutality: Racial Difference and the Intersectionality of the Ethiopian Eunuch / Roland Betancourt -- Case Study, Mobilizing the Collection: Teaching Beyond the (Medieval) Canon with Museum Objects / Kristen Collins and Bryan C. Keene -- Color, Culture, and the Making of Difference in the Vidal Mayor / Pamela A. Patton -- Case Study, Horses, Arrows, and Trebuchets: Picturing the Mongol Military Campaign in Eurasia / Kaiqi Hua -- Novelty and Diversity in Illustrations of Marco Polo's Description of the World / Mark Cruse -- Case Study, Visualizing Byzantine and Islamic Devotional Objects in Two Fifteenth-Century Francophone Manuscripts / Alexandra Kaczenski -- Itineraries from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Travel, Circulation, and Exchange / Bryan C. Keene -- Transplants and Transformations in a Global Middle Ages / Jill Caskey -- Case Study, Manuscripts, Faith, and Trade across the Medieval Sahara / Michelle H. Craig -- Narrative Shifts: The Life of the Buddha in Palm-Leaf Manuscripts / Tushara Bindu Gude -- Traveling off the Page: Bringing the Voyage to Life in Hebrew Poetry and Paintings / Elizabeth Eisenberg and Melanie Holcomb -- Case Study, Peregrinations of Parchment and Pewter: Manuscripts and Mental Pilgrimage / Rheagan Eric Martin -- Epilogue: Global History and the Art Museum / James Cuno -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.