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Sealed in Parchment: Rereadings of Knighthood in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes
Sealed in Parchment Rereadings of Knighthood in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes Author:Sandra Hindman Chretien de Troyes was France's great medieval poet?inventor of the genre of courtly romance and popularizer of the Arthurian legend. The forty-four surviving manuscripts of his work (ten of them illuminated) pose a number of questions about who used these books and in what way. In Sealed in Parchment, Sandra Hindman scrutinizes both text... more » and images to reveal what the manuscripts can tell us about medieval society and politics.« less