Opening the Macclesfield Psalter: Patrons and Priories
It is undeniable that the Macclesfield Psalter is virtually unrivalled for its lavish illustrations. The gilded representations of structural, organic and allegorical elements are alluring and were certainly significant for the medieval recipients. Despite its beauty and rare pigments it was not just a work of art to simply gaze upon.
Medieval Manuscripts: The Great Canterbury Psalter
One manuscript, created in two countries by two different workshops, over a hundred years apart.
Asteriscos et obelos suis locis restitui – the revision of the Psalter during the Carolingian Renaissance
Today, I would like to discuss one type of early medieval psalter and the one feature that discerns this type – and that is the presence of critical signs.
Basan and Bata: The Occupational Surnames of Two Pre-Conquest Monks of Canterbury
As hereditary surnames were not common in Anglo-Saxon England, men of the same name were differentiated by sobriquets based on their place of origin, a physical characteristic or occupation. This article argues that Eadui Basan and Aelfric Bata, two eleventh-century monks of Christ Church, had sobriquets, in Latin of fashionable obscurity, that reflected their occupations within the monastic community.
Transformations of Print into Painting: A Case Study of the Context of Prints in an Illustrated Brigittine Psalter
This liturgical psalter raises issues of the production and consumption of religious texts in convents in the northern Netherlands.