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The Mercy Seller: A Novel
In the fifteenth century, with religious intolerance spreading like wildfire across Europe, Englishwoman Anna Bookman and her grandfather, Finn, earn a living in Prague by illuminating precious books---including forbidden translations of the Bible. As their secret trade grows ever more hazardous, Finn urges Anna to seek sanctuary in England. Her passage abroad, however, will be anything but easy. Meanwhile, a priest in London, Brother Gabriel, dutifully obeys church doctrine by granting pardons . . . for a small fee. But when he is sent to France in disguise to find the source of the banned manuscripts finding their way to England, he meets Anna, who has set up a temporary stall as a bookseller. She has no way of knowing that the rich merchant frequenting her stall is actually a priest---just as he does not know that he has met the woman for whom he will renounce his church. It is only in England, which is far from the safe harbor once imagined, that their dangerous secrets will be revealed. .
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Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work
Who were the medieval illuminators and how were their hand-produced books illustrated and decorated? In this book, Jonathan Alexander presents a survey of manuscript illumination throughout Europe from the fourth to the 16th century. He discusses the social and historical context of the illuminators' lives, considers their methods of work, and presents a series of case studies to show the range and nature of the visual sources and the ways in which they were adapted, copied or created anew. Alexander explains that in the early period, Christian monasteries and churches were the main centres for the copying of manuscripts, and so the majority of illuminators were monks working in and for their own monasteries. From the 11th century, lay scribes and illuminators became increasingly numerous and by the 13th century professional illuminators dominated the field. During this later period, illuminators travelled in search of work, joined guilds and included nuns and secular women among their ranks. Work was regularly collaborative and the craft was learned through an apprenticeship system. Alexander analyzes surviving manuscripts and medieval treatises in order to explain the technical processes of illumination - its materials, methods, tools, choice of illustration and execution. The book is illustrated with examples chosen from religious and secular manuscripts made all over Europe..
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Mary Magdalene: the Illuminator: The Woman Who Enlightened Christ
This historical and mythological detective work on the suppressed secrets of Jesus and Mary Magdalene first appeared in Blue Apples. New evidence about the secrets and the true history of Mary Magdalene, including why she was called the Illuminator or Illuminatrix and why the Knights Templar were attacked by the Church of Rome. William Henry goes beyond The Da Vinci Code and Holy Blood, Holy Grail and pierces the veil of the secrets of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, revealing sensational new research from forbidden texts and teachings revealed in clues left in religious art and legend. * the ultimate secret of the Ladder to God or Stairway to Heaven? * astonishing facts about the secret teachings of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and their connection to the Illumined Ones of the past * The Gnostics, Cathars and their connection to Mary Magdalene * The alchemical secrets of Mary Magdalene’s anointing oil and how it transformed Jesus * The Magdalene’s connection to Ishtar, Isis and other ancient goddesses * The extraterrestrial presence in the Bible and Gnostic Christian texts * How the Knights Templar encoded the secret teaching of Jesus and Mary Magdalene in religious graffiti at Domme, France, and much, much more..
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Scribes and Illuminators (Medieval Craftsmen)
Illuminated manuscripts survive in great numbers from the Middle Ages. They are often beautifully preserved, enabling us to appreciate the skilled design and craftsmanship of the people who created them. Christopher de Hamel describes each stage of production from the preparation of the vellum, pens, paints and inks to the writing of the scripts and the final decoration and illumination of the book. He then examines the role of the stationer or bookshop in co-ordinating book production and describes the supply of exemplars and the accuracy of texts. He follows the careers of a number of specific scribes and illuminators who emerge not as anonymous monks but as identifiable professional lay artisans. He also looks at those who bought the completed books, why they did so, and how much they paid. His survey ranges from the eleventh century through the golden age of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to the luxurious manuscripts existing at the invention of printing..
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A Dictionary Of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers And Copyists V3: With References To Their Works And Notices Of Their Patrons (1889)
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