The Neville of Hornby Hours and the Design of Literate Devotion

• Autores: Kathryn A. Smith
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 81, Nº 1, 1999, págs. 72-92
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study analyzes image-text relationships in an illustrated vernacular devotional work, the Anglo-French Complaint of Our Lady/Gospel of Nicodemus, part of a profusely illuminated book of hours commissioned about 1335-40 by a female member of the English gentry. It is argued that certain features of the manuscript’s design and illustration structured and enhanced the religious experience of the "devotionally literate" reader. Further, the study suggests how the patron might have used this illustrated text to educate her daughter in the fundamentals of literate devotion.