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Kalamazoo Book Blog: The final clean-up
Jun. 5th, 2014 10:16 pmThe last of the Kalamazoo book-intake reviews is the “miscelaneous” group. (This is assuming I don’t still have books being shipped. But it looks like they all match up with my receipts.) The St. Albans Psalter really should have gone with the previous manuscript art books, but it hadn’t arrived yet.
Collins, Kristen, Peter Kidd, & Nancy K. Turner. 2013. The St. Albans Psalter: Painting and Prayer in Medieval England. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. ISBN 978-1-60606-145-9
A fairly standard single-manuscript study focusing on the illustrations and their textual context, but with basic information about the origin and history of the manuscript as a whole. There’s also a nicely detailed discussion of some of the artistic techniques. I picked it up largely because there is a wealth of human figures in the illustrations and I’m kind of weak on 12th c. English costuming resources. Many many color plates showing a wide variety of the standard Biblical set-pieces common to works of this sort.
Simms, Katharine. 2009. Medieval Gaelic Sources. Four Courts Press, Dublin. ISBN 978-1-84682-138-7
For primary sources for medieval Celtic history, one of the most useful types of tools for the beginner is a resource of this type that lays out exactly what sorts of sources are available, what they contain, and where to find them. This is more in the way of “deep background” than an exhaustive catalog. In contrast to the majority of books on medieval Irish topics, this focuses on history rather than literature.
Duncan, Thomas G. 2013. Medieval English Lyrics and Carols. D. S. Brewer, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-84384-341-2
Primarily a collection of the texts of carols, with limited glossary notes and brief commentary in an appendix. Organized thematically. This is a very large collection with a high proportion of secular lyrics, but aspiring performers will be disappointed to find essentially no information about tunes.
Collins, Kristen, Peter Kidd, & Nancy K. Turner. 2013. The St. Albans Psalter: Painting and Prayer in Medieval England. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. ISBN 978-1-60606-145-9
A fairly standard single-manuscript study focusing on the illustrations and their textual context, but with basic information about the origin and history of the manuscript as a whole. There’s also a nicely detailed discussion of some of the artistic techniques. I picked it up largely because there is a wealth of human figures in the illustrations and I’m kind of weak on 12th c. English costuming resources. Many many color plates showing a wide variety of the standard Biblical set-pieces common to works of this sort.
Simms, Katharine. 2009. Medieval Gaelic Sources. Four Courts Press, Dublin. ISBN 978-1-84682-138-7
For primary sources for medieval Celtic history, one of the most useful types of tools for the beginner is a resource of this type that lays out exactly what sorts of sources are available, what they contain, and where to find them. This is more in the way of “deep background” than an exhaustive catalog. In contrast to the majority of books on medieval Irish topics, this focuses on history rather than literature.
Duncan, Thomas G. 2013. Medieval English Lyrics and Carols. D. S. Brewer, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-84384-341-2
Primarily a collection of the texts of carols, with limited glossary notes and brief commentary in an appendix. Organized thematically. This is a very large collection with a high proportion of secular lyrics, but aspiring performers will be disappointed to find essentially no information about tunes.
