Sealed in Parchment

Download or read book Sealed in Parchment written by Sandra Hindman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-10-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and images to reveal what the manuscripts can tell us about medieval society and politics.