{"product_id":"mirror-in-parchment-the-luttrell-psalter-and-the-making-of-medieval-england-9780226092409","title":"Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is the status of visual evidence in history? Can we actually see the past through images? Where are the traces of previous lives deposited? Michael Camille addresses these important questions in Mirror in Parchment  a lively  searching study of one medieval manuscript  its patron  producers  and historical progeny.  The richly illuminated Luttrell Psalter was created for the English nobleman Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (1276-1345). Inexpensive mechanical illustration has since disseminated the books images to a much wider audience; hence the Psalters representations of manorial life have come to profoundly shape our modern idea of what medieval English people  high and low  looked like at work and at play. Alongside such supposedly truthful representations  the Psalter presents myriad images of fantastic monsters and beasts. These patently false images have largely been disparaged or ignored by modern historians and art historians alike  for they challenge the credibility of those pictures in the Luttrell Psalter that we wish to see as real.  In the conviction that medieval images were not generally intended to reflect daily life but rather to shape a new reality  Michael Camille analyzes the Psalters famous pictures as representations of the world  imagined and real  of its original patron. Addressed are late medieval chivalric ideals  physical sites of power  and the boundaries of Sir Geoffreys imagined community  wherein agricultural laborers and fabulous monsters play a similar ideological role. The Luttrell Psalter thus emerges as a complex social document of the world as its patron hoped and feared it might be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651745538101,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226092402","price":103.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226092409.jpg?v=1781839047","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/mirror-in-parchment-the-luttrell-psalter-and-the-making-of-medieval-england-9780226092409","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}