The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West.(Book Review)

From: Canadian Journal of History | Date: August 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

by John Higgitt. British Library Studies in Medieval Culture and Society. London, British Library and National Library of Scotland and Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2000. xxii, 362 pp. incl. CD-Rom. $80.00 U.S. (cloth).

John Higgitt's meticulous examination of the manuscript known as The Murthly Hours is a welcome addition to a significant body of recent work on medieval books of hours. The breadth and depth of this study bear eloquent witness to the complexity that has come to characterize scholarly assessments of illuminated manuscripts in that it combines the ...

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