Sandra Hindman

Diana Scarisbrick

Ilaria Fatone

Angélique Laurent-di Mantova

This book presents 35 medieval and Renaissance rings in a private collection. Dating between approximately 300 C.E. and 1600 C.E., these rings, assembled over nearly two decades, represent fine examples of most of the major types of rings created during this time period in Western Europe and Byzantium: marriage rings, seal rings, stirrup rings, tart mold rings, iconographic rings, merchant rings, gemstone rings, etc. Diana Scarisbrick has contributed an illustrated introduction on "Collecting Rings." Following the introduction, Sandra Hindman has written descriptions of each ring. Organized chronologically, descriptions offer comparisons with rings in major public collections and situate each ring in its art-historical context often with comparisons to works of art in other media. A catalogue, written by Ilaria Fatone, presents comparisons, provenance, exhibitions, and bibliographies for each ring; where possible, the catalogue also includes a census of each type of ring from examples in public and private collections. A technical section by the conservator Angelique Laurent-di Mantova studies each ring, its material, fabrication, signs of use, and so forth. The contribution of this book, in addition to making known a collection of high-quality rings, lies in its art-historical observations.

A Private Collection

Toward an Art History of Medieval Rings

Text and Image in Fifteenth-century Illustrated Dutch Bibles

Chretien de Troyes was France's great medieval poet—inventor of the genre of courtly romance and popularizer of the Arthurian legend. The forty-four surviving manuscripts of his work (ten of them illuminated) pose a number of questions about who used these books and in what way. In Sealed in Parchment, Sandra Hindman scrutinizes both text and images to reveal what the manuscripts can tell us about medieval society and politics.

Rereadings of Knighthood in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes

Sealed in Parchment

Essays in Honor of Lessing J. Rosenwald

The Early Illustrated Book

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Painting and Politics at the Court of Charles VI

Christine de Pizan's "Epistre Othéa"

Binding and the Archeology of the Medieval and Renaissance Book

Rings are at once the most intimate forms of jewelry and personal forms of art. This book focuses on approximately fifty rings from a distinguished private collection, tracing the ways that rings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance came to be meaningful. From the mine to the modern collection and through the forge, the goldsmith's shop, and the hands of successive generations of owners, these rings underwent journeys that lent them multifaceted and often multilayered resonances. This book explores these pathways and examines how people throughout history have interacted with multiple aspects of these small but remarkably complex objects. An introduction by Diana Scarisbrick supplements this biography of rings by investigating five prominent ring enthusiasts whose lives, interests, and collections have played prominent roles in the development of the modern appraisal of rings, while providing a chronological sequence for the rings in this book. A catalog of the rings, including their technical details, accompanies the text.

Medieval and Renaissance Rings from the Griffin Collection

Take This Ring

Ann Tukey Harrison

The 'Danse Macabre' of Women is a 15th-century French poem found in an illuminated late-medieval manuscript. This book contains reproductions of each manuscript folio, a translation and explanatory chapters by Ann Tukey Harrison. Art historian Sandra L. Hindman also contributes a chapter.

Ms. Fr. 995 of the Bibliothèque Nationale

The Danse Macabre of Women

Federica Toniolo

The outstanding Burke Collection of Italian miniatures, which is housed in the Special Collections and University Archives of the Stanford Libraries, has been growing for more than twenty years. It includes manuscript leaves, cuttings, and codices by many of the greatest Italian artists of the medieval and Renaissance periods. Works in the collection range in date from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries, comprising more than forty miniatures from thirty-five artists representing thirteen different regions of Italy. They are showcased here through three hundred stunning images, accompanied by an introduction by medieval manuscript expert Christopher de Hamel.

The Burke Collection of Italian Miniatures

James H. Marrow

For over three hunderd years, more Books of Hours were made than any other type of book, even the Bible. From c. 1225, when the first Books of Hours began to appear, to 1571, when during the Counter-Reformation Pope Pius V prohibited the use of all existing Books of Hours, nearly every European family of a certain means owned a Book of Hours. Books of Hours Reconsidered presents recent research on this medieval bestseller in twenty-one essays written by international scholars. The scholarship in this volume helps instill Books of Hours with new life and give them new meaning at a moment when interest in Books of Hours is on the rise.

Books of Hours Reconsidered

Sandra Hindman

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