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Book SynopsisAlison Stones has taught History of Art and Architecture in the USA since 1969 and has enjoyed Visiting Fellowships at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Paris. She is a specialist in illuminated manuscripts, co-authoring Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes (1993), The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela, A Critical Edition (1998), and writing Le Livre d'images de Madame Marie (Paris, BNF n.a.fr. 16251) (1997), and Gautier de Coinci, Miracles, Music and Manuscripts (2006). Her four-volume study, Manuscripts Illuminated in France, Gothic Manuscripts 1260-1320 was published in 2013 and 2014. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a Correspondant étranger honoraire of the Société nationale des Antiquaires de France and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
These two volumes collect and update Professor Stones's papers on Arthurian manuscript illustration, one of her continuing passions. These essays explore aspects of the iconography of the romances of Chrétien de Troyes in French verse, the lengthy Lancelot-Grail romance in French prose, and other versions of the chivalrous exploits of King Arthur's knights - the best-sellers of the Middle Ages. Illustrated copies of these romances survive in huge numbers from the early thirteenth century through the beginnings of print, and were read for their text and their pictures throughout the French-speaking world. Of special interest is the cultural context in which these popular works were made and disseminated, by scribes and artists whose work encompassed all kinds of books, for patrons whose collecting was wide-ranging, including secular books alongside works of liturgical and devotional interest.
Table of ContentsForeword
Approaches to French Secular Illustration
Secular Manuscript Illumination in France
Sacred and Profane Art: Secular and Liturgical Book-Illumination in the Thirteenth Century
Arthurian Art Since Loomis
Indications écrites et modèles picturaux, guides aux peintres de manuscrits enluminés aux environs de 1300
Fabrication et illustration des manuscrits arthuriens
Text and Image in Arthurian Manuscripts
The Lancelot-Grail Romance: Methods and Subjects
The 'Lancelot-Graal' Project
Teaching and Research on Medieval Art on the Web: Three Sites
Towards a Comparative Approach to Manuscript Study on the Web: the Case of the Lancelot-Grail Romance
Stories in Pictures and their Transmission: A Comparative Approach to the Manuscripts of the Lancelot-Grail Romance
'Mise en page' in the French Lancelot-Grail: the First One Hundred and Fifty Years of the Illustrative Tradition
Short Note on Manuscripts Rylands French 1 and Douce
Another Short Note on Rylands French 1
Les débuts de l'héraldique dans l'illustration des romans arthuriens
Lancelot and Identity
A Note on the Heraldry of a Very Special Gauvain
Le merveilleux dans le Lancelot-Graal: l'exemple du cerf accompagné de quatre lions
Estoire and Queste Illustration
The Earliest Illustrated Prose Lancelot Manuscript?
Two French Manuscripts: WLC/LM/6 and WLC/LM/7
Un schéma d'emplacement pour l'illustration de l'Estoire del saint Graal et les débuts de la tradition manuscrite
Seeing the Grail. Prolegomena to a Study of Grail Imagery in Arthurian Manuscripts
The Grail in Rylands MS French 1 and its Sister Manuscripts
Signs and symbols in the Estoire del saint Graal and the Queste del saint Graal
The Illustrations of the Queste del saint Graal in Yale 229 and Other Queste Manuscripts
The Illustrations of BN, fr 95 and Yale 229. Prolegomena to a Comparative Analysis
L'Estoire del saint Graal dans la version adaptée par Guillaume de la Pierre pour Jean-Louis de Savoie, évêque de Genève: sources et traitement pictural
