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The book explores how the lives and communities of artists and their artworks intersect. It focuses on paintings, installations, photographs, batik, and performance art from Turkey between 1973 and 1998. Covering transnational networks, political alliances, and ethnic communities, it reveals bonds of familial, professional, and friendly relations.
List of contents
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- List of Appendices
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions
- Glossary
- Introduction
- 1: The Late Medieval Bible: Beyond Innovation
- 2: Wycliffite Bibles and the Limits of Orthodoxy
- 3: The First Printed English Bible(s
- 4: The Great Bible as a Useless Book
- 5: Into Fast Forward: The Bibles of Edward VI
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Innovative LMBs
- Appendix 2: Editions of the Great Bible in the Reign of Henry VIII
- Appendix 3: Single-Volume Bibles Printed in the Reign of Edward VI
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Eyal Poleg is a Senior Lecturer in Material History at Queen Mary University of London. His work combines the analysis of books and objects with the study of pre-modern religion. He trained in history, photography, comparative religion, and book history, all invaluable in the study of the medieval and early modern Bible. He explores how Bibles were created and used, and how people, lay and religious alike, got to know their Bibles in the Middle Ages and early modernity. He is fascinated by the information contained in medieval books and objects, and develops new means for their analysis, often in collaboration with scientists, curators, and librarians.
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The book explores how the lives and communities of artists and their artworks intersect. It focuses on paintings, installations, photographs, batik, and performance art from Turkey between 1973 and 1998. Covering transnational networks, political alliances, and ethnic communities, it reveals bonds of familial, professional, and friendly relations.
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...there is much to be learned from the attention to biblical paratexts, and to various scribe', editors', translators', and printers' attempts to parse and package the Bible as a singlevolume text. And Poleg's book may fruitfully be consulted by anyone pursuing research along these lines.
