Art, Liturgy, and Legend in Renaissance Toledo: The Mendoza and the Iglesia Primada

by Lynette M.F. Bosch

In Art, Liturgy, and Legend in Renaissance Toledo, Lynette Bosch examines liturgical manuscripts that members of the powerful Mendoza family commissioned for the cathedral of Toledo at a time when it was the symbolic center of the Spanish nation. Using patronage as a filter, Bosch relates the style, content, and function of these lavish manuscripts to the many-sided ritual life of the Cathedral and, beyond that, to its social and political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271019689
• ISBN13: 9780271019680
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.7" x 11.3"