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" Vision, devotion, and self-representation in late medieval art / "
Alexa Sand.
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BL
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639911
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Sand, Alexa Kristen.
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Vision, devotion, and self-representation in late medieval art /\ Alexa Sand.
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xv, 408 pages :: illustrations some color ;; 26 cm
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9781107032224
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: 1107032229
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-397) and index.
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Introduction: self-reflection, devotion, and vision in the image of the book owner at prayer -- Saving face: the Veronica and the Visio Dei -- From Memoria to Visio: revising the donor -- Framing vision: the image of the book owner and the reflexive mode of seeing -- Domesticating devotion: body, space, and self -- Conclusion: Power and the portrait: negotiating gender.
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"This book focuses on one of the most attractive yet poorly understood features of late-medieval manuscript illumination: the portrait of the book owner at prayer within the pages of her own prayer-book"--
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Portraits, Medieval-- England.
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Portraits, Medieval-- France.
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Women-- England, Portraits.
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Women-- France, Portraits.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval-- England.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval-- France.
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Prayer books-- England.
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Prayer books-- France.
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745.6/7094
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ND3337.S26 2014
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