Gothic Manuscript Illustration
Anne D. Hedeman
During the thirteenth century, Paris, French capital, was one of largest cities in Europe and, arguably, center European manuscript production. As a result particular circumstances, manuscripts, particularly Parisian ones, have long been focus scholarly analysis and serve as an appropriate case-study for methodological approaches to Gothic illustration. This chapter describes how some recent built on fundamental studies style shape reshape perception book It explains interest codicology, genre studies, interdisciplinarity posed new questions about production consumption illuminated book. Stylistic remains central component art historical practice essential foundation other Sandra Hindman's Alison Stones's Keith Busby's articles their corpus greatest utility historians trying understand Arthurian imagery.