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Boydell Press The Painted Histories of the Welles-Ros Bible (Paris, BnF Fr.1): Scripture Transformed in Fourteenth-Century England (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture)

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A lavishly illustrated study of the Welles-Ros Bible, exploring its provenance, ownership, design and production. At some point between c.1366 and 1373, the noblewoman Maud de Ros, widow of the Lincolnshire baron John de Welles, commissioned what is now the earliest surviving entire translated Bible from England. The Welles-Ros Bible contains the most complete edition of the Anglo-Norman Bible - a close, often literal translation of the Vulgate into insular French - as well as 82 narrative, highly personalized illustrations. As this first long-form study of the manuscript argues, Maud commissioned the Bible to serve as a mirror, guide, family archive, dynastic chronicle, and source of spiritual instruction and consolation for her youthful son, John, 5th Baron Welles (1352-1421). Moreover, Maud played a key role in the production of the text edition and the design of many of the images. This book analyzes the manuscript, its text, and its vivid illuminations in the context of rich traditions of medieval biblical translation, production, and illustration, offering fresh insights into the roles of images in shaping and mediating scripture and religious experience. Adding to our understandings of life among the lower nobility in later fourteenth-century England, this cultural history of a major artefact also expands our picture of the cultural patronage and creative agency of laywomen, as well as medieval strategies of memorialization, responses to the Plague, and ideas about gender, identity, sexuality and the emotions.

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Brand: Boydell Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1837652694
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Graphic Arts > Commercial > Illustration
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Release Date: 10 June 2025
Listed Since: 19 December 2024

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