Tabula Picta: Painting and Writing in Medieval Law
Marta Madero. Translated by Monique Dascha Inciarte and Roland David Valayre. Foreword by Roger Chartier
160 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4186-0 | $45.00 | £29.50
A volume in the Material Texts series
“Madero’s book is a contribution both to the history of the property rights to artistic works and to the history of ideas about material things. . . . Tabula Picta demonstrates, in effect, that the category of the materiality of the text is . . . subject to historical variations that depend not only on the availability of particular techniques or materials. Perhaps even more, it is subject to the variable and plural categories that enable us, in different registers of experience and practice, to provide names, order, and attributions to things.”–from the Foreword by Roger Chartier
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