Peasants wear ultramarine
Barbara Newman: Nuns with Blue Teeth, 10 February 2022
Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book
by Elaine Treharne.
Oxford, 248 pp., £30, October 2021,978 0 19 284381 4 Show More
by Elaine Treharne.
Oxford, 248 pp., £30, October 2021,
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers
by Mary Wellesley.
Riverrun, 372 pp., £25, October 2021,978 1 5294 0093 9 Show More
by Mary Wellesley.
Riverrun, 372 pp., £25, October 2021,
The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books
by Elina Gertsman.
Penn State, 232 pp., £99.95, June 2021,978 0 271 08784 9 Show More
by Elina Gertsman.
Penn State, 232 pp., £99.95, June 2021,
“... intense reflection on a craft perceived as both violent and holy. The poem is deeply sensual, as Elaine Treharne notes: ‘It represents the noise of slicing, sloshing, scraping, stitching, sawing, smithing, singing, sighing, and … the smell and taste of guts and wood, fire and melting wax.’ Fortunately, no animals were harmed to produce the three ... ”
