Visualizing Justice in Burgundian Prose Romance: Text and Image in Manuscripts of the Wavrin Master (1450s-1460s)

by Brown-Grant and Rosalind

This is the first monograph devoted to manuscripts illuminated by the mid-fifteenth-century artist known as the Wavrin Master, so-called after his chief patron, Jean de Wavrin, chronicler and councillor at the court of Philip the Good of Burgundy. Specializing in the production of pseudo-historical prose romances featuring the putative ancestors of actual Burgundian families, the artist was an attentive interpreter of these texts which were designed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503586333
• ISBN13: 9782503586335
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 389 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.