Warfare in Medieval Manuscripts

Informationen zum Autor Pamela Porter is a former curator at the British Library. Klappentext The glamour associated with knights in shining armor, colorful tournaments, and heroic deeds appeal strongly to the modern imagination. However, few pieces of military dress and equipment have survived, so for a comprehensive view of the nature of medieval warfare we rely on written documentation and the information preserved in paintings, sculptures, carvings, and other pictorial sources. The most numerous of these are the miniatures and drawings found in manuscript books, partly because books tend to survive better that other artefacts and partly because many individual volumes contain multiple representations. Pamela Porter presents a variety of evocative manuscript illuminations and reveals them as a source of information about military dress, equipment, and practices. Zusammenfassung Illustrating the art of war with dozens of medieval images from books and manuscripts! this new edition is completely revised with a selection of new content from the British Library's collections.

Product details

• Authors: Pamela Porter, Porter Pamela
• Publisher: British Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780712356053
• ISBN: 978-0-7123-5605-3
• No. of pages: 128
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book; military history, Medieval History, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Human figures depicted in art, Medieval style, Human figures depicted in the arts