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The Gilded Page

The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts

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A breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII.

Medieval manuscripts can tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Many have survived because of an author’s status - part of the reason we have so much of Chaucer’s writing, for example, is because he was a London-based government official first and a poet second. Other works by the less influential have narrowly avoided ruin, like the book of illiterate Margery Kempe, found in a country house closet, the cover nibbled on by mice. Scholar Mary Wellesley recounts the amazing origins of these remarkable manuscripts, surfacing the important roles played by women and ordinary people - the grinders, binders, and scribes - in their creation and survival.

The Gilded Page is the story of the written word in the manuscript age. Rich and surprising, it shows how the most exquisite objects ever made by human hands came from unexpected places.

©2021 Mary Wellesley (P)2021 Quercus Editions, Ltd Arte Europa Gran Bretaña Medioevo Medieval History
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Well read, well written and researched, but descriptions alone just aren’t sufficient to make this book work. I don’t even know if the print version has images, but this subject just doesn’t work as audio alone. A pdf of images would be an improvement, but still probably not enough.

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