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03046aam a2200469 i 4500 001 B23ACFA66BEF11E5917E58C1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151006010103 008 150114s2015 ctua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015001695 020 $a 0300209894 (hardback) 020 $a 9780300209891 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)893896520 040 $a DL $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d ERASA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d QGK $d CDX $d OCLCO $d ORC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e------ 050 00 $a ND2920 $b .R83 2015 082 00 $a 745.6/70940902 $2 23 084 $a HIS010020 $a DES001000 $a HIS054000 $a HIS010020 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Rudy, Kathryn M., $e author. 245 10 $a Postcards on parchment : $b the social lives of medieval books / $c Kathryn M. Rudy. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2015] 300 $a ix, 359 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 29 cm 520 $a "Medieval prayer books held not only the devotions and meditations of Christianity, but also housed, slipped between pages, sundry notes, reminders, and ephemera, such as pilgrims' badges, sworn oaths, and small painted images. Many of these last items have been classified as manuscript illumination, but Kathryn M. Rudy argues that these pictures should be called, instead, parchment paintings, similar to postcards. In a delightful study identifying this group of images for the first time, Rudy delineates how these objects functioned apart from the books in which they were kept. Whereas manuscript illuminations were designed to provide a visual narrative to accompany a book's text, parchment paintings offered a kind of autonomous currency for exchange between individuals--people who longed for saturated color in a gray world of wood, stone, and earth. These small, colorful pictures offered a brilliant reprieve, and Rudy shows how these intriguing and previously unfamiliar images were traded and cherished, shedding light into the everyday life and relationships of those in the medieval Low Countries. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-352) and indexes. 650 0 $a Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval $x Themes, motives. 650 0 $a Books and reading $x History $z Europe $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Parchment $z Europe. 650 7 $a ART / History / Medieval. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a DESIGN / Book. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Social History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Europe / Western. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Books and reading $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00836470 650 7 $a Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval $x Themes, motives. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00967328 650 7 $a Parchment. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01053276 651 7 $a Europe. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245064 648 7 $a To 1500 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213020355.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826042032.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B23ACFA66BEF11E5917E58C1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search