Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World William Morris’s Flowers will both

William Morris’s Flowers will both inform and delight

beasts and birds are not mere aesthetic objects but dynamic actors in allegorical struggles: a wild turkey crushes a small parrot in its claw

This whimsical

encompassing every type of work―from plein-air sketches to finished studio pieces―and a wide variety of artists

Chuck Jones

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World William Morris’s Flowers will bothAn exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history and about the modern world, too. Part