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Female Book Owners in the Valois Courts, 1350--1550 : = Devotional Manuscripts as Vehicles for Self-Definition.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Female Book Owners in the Valois Courts, 1350--1550 :/
Reminder of title:	Devotional Manuscripts as Vehicles for Self-Definition.
Author:	Hand, Joni M.
Description:	1 online resource (330 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-02, Section: A, page: 3920.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-02A.
Subject:	Art history. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781267006981

Female Book Owners in the Valois Courts, 1350--1550 : = Devotional Manuscripts as Vehicles for Self-Definition.
Hand, Joni M.

Female Book Owners in the Valois Courts, 1350--1550 :Devotional Manuscripts as Vehicles for Self-Definition. - 1 online resource (330 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-02, Section: A, page: 3920.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references

An examination of the books owned by noblewomen from the Valois courts reveals how significantly they contributed to the cultural and spiritual character of the period. They were responsible for commissioning a vast number of manuscripts, some of which were aesthetically equal to the books made for the dukes and kings. In fact, certain manuscripts now considered the most lavish and important from this period belonged to women. These women often married into noble families from regions far from their native lands. When they arrived at their new homes, they brought their own customs, knowledge of artistic styles, and aesthetic sensibilities, which affected book production in western Europe. Appendices 1--7 show the complexity of relationships between nobles from Burgundy, France, Spain and England for eleven generations, and include all of the individuals discussed in this dissertation. These charts reveal the matrilineal connections between generations and include many women who do not appear on ancestral charts in other studies of the late medieval nobility in northern Europe. As demonstrated in the charts, marriages could result in the solidification of certain regions within a generation, causing genealogical ramifications in subsequent generations. This ancestral web shows the mobility of women in western Europe in the late Middle Ages, resulting in their desire to preserve some of their childhood traditions through commissions of devotional manuscripts.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781267006981Subjects--Topical Terms:

1180038
Art history.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Female Book Owners in the Valois Courts, 1350--1550 : = Devotional Manuscripts as Vehicles for Self-Definition.
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