Manuscripts That Changed the World. The Most Amazing Manuscripts of the Middle Ages

This is a fascinating study of twelve illuminated manuscripts. Renowned historian Christopher de Amel invites the reader to an intimate conversation with medieval texts to learn what they tell us about nearly a millennium of history as well as the... modern world. Amel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, merchants, and collectors. He invites readers on detailed journeys filled with intriguing details, taken by these incredibly valuable artifacts through time, and shows us how they were copied, how they were closely intertwined with politics, how they were regarded as objects of the highest beauty and symbols of national identity, and who owned or longed to possess them (and how we can now learn about and identify this). The book is published with the support of the electronic academic journal "Vox medii aevi".