Picturing Kingship

History and Painting in the Psalter of Saint Louis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Picturing Kingship presents the first comprehensive art-historical study of the personal prayerbook of King Louis IX. The book approaches the St. Louis Psalter through a rich range of perspectives and methodologies and positions it within the contexts of its production and use. Not only is the manuscript’s production and structure given detailed study, but the king’s ways of handling his prayerbook—his habits of reading, looking, and praying—are also set forth in a compelling narrative of his view of his sacred responsibilities as king.In the first half of the book, Stahl investigates the Psalter’s physical construction and development within the context of manuscript production in thirteenth-century Paris. The second half looks at the Psalter’s thematic and iconographic workings and the role of the king’s adviser—Vincent of Beauvais—in the Psalter’s shaping. Most important, though, the author delves into the meanings the Psalter might have held for the king, who was a crusader and so devout a Christian that he was canonized by Boniface VIII. Stahl makes it clear that the Psalter, already recognized as one of the true masterworks of thirteenth-century French culture, should also be recognized as a significant force in Louis IX’s life and reign.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-03-18
Mått216 x 279 x 38 mm
Vikt2 155 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor464
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271028637

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ContentsList of IllustrationsForeword by Jacques Le GoffEditor’s NoteList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Manuscript and Its History1.The Physical Manuscript2.The Artists and Their Paintings 3.Constructions and Readings4.Psalters and the Old Testament5.A Royal ProgramConclusion: The King and His PsalterAppendixesAppendix I: DescriptionAppendix II: LegendsAppendix III: The Calendar (Folios 79r–84v)Appendix IV: Text Signatures and CatchwordsAppendix V: Concordance of AttributionsAppendix VI: The Previous Binding and Its Textile CoveringAppendix VII: Prefatory Miniatures: Working Groups with Physical VariablesBibliographyIndex

“Harvey Stahl’s posthumous study of the St. Louis Psalter promises to take its place as one of the finest monographs ever published on a medieval illuminated manuscript. The psalter provided the backbone of the liturgy and the primary vehicle of private prayer and study before the Book of Hours. One of the best-known manuscripts of the entire Middle Ages, St. Louis’s psalter is also, astonishingly, among the least studied. Stahl’s monograph considers all aspects of the manuscript, from its codicology to its content. Above all, he expands our notion of the expressive and visual capacity of thirteenth-century illumination, which too often is dismissed as stylized mannerism. This is a glorious book on a glorious manuscript.”—Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University