Postcards on parchment : the social lives of medieval books
- Submitting institution
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University of St Andrews
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 251821584
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- ISBN
- 9780300209891
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Postcards on Parchment (Yale UP, 2015) presents the fruits of six years of archival research across regional and national libraries of northern Europe. Its 156,221 words identify, organise, and analyse a hitherto-unnamed category of late medieval single-leaf paintings: independent paintings on parchment. Although these were made in large quantities, often by amateurs, most of the survivors were happenstance: stuck into books for their owners’ convenience. Of the book’s 292 illustrations, over ¾ are published here for the first time. This book challenges the canon, illuminates techniques of production, and theorises new functions for the late medieval image.
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- Non-English
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