Between France and Flanders: Manuscript Illumination in Amiens in the Fifteenth Century

by Susie Nash

This superbly illustrated study is the first monograph devoted to the manuscript production of a regional French town of the late Middle Ages. Amiens at this period was an important commercial, religious, and cultural centre, poised geographically and politically between France and Flanders, and thus between the most avant-garde artistic regions in Northern Europe for panel painting and manuscript illumination. Examining manuscript illumination in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802041140
• ISBN13: 9780802041142
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 3.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.2" x 10.0"