With nearly 200 illustrations, Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms offers both a broad survey of the physical forms and cultural histories of manuscripts and a dozen particularly significant case studies, including the Beowulf manuscript, the Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, and The Book of Margery Kempe.
Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain, Facsimile shows how reproductions of medieval manuscripts were central to a renewal of interest in the Middle Ages in the public at large; the consolidation and emergence of scholarly disciplines; and the increase in institutions that cared for medieval manuscripts.
The Formation of a Picture Culture in the United States
Michael Leja
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9781512826807
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
400 Pages
In the three decades before the Civil War, pictures of many kinds assumed essential functions and mediated all sorts of individual and collective experiences for a large segment of the population. In A Flood of Pictures, Michael Leja explores how the widespread circulation of pictures reshaped a culture accustomed to printed and spoken words.
Philadelphia, from the Revolution until at least the 1840s, was at once the most cosmopolitan and most racially embattled city in America. Thomas Sully’s superb portraits, which form the core of this story, include many of the men and women who made the city’s history in those decades.
Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome shows how, from late antiquity to early modernity, elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their own, thereby empowering and immortalizing their families.
The House of Barnes chronicles the life and times of extraordinary art collector Albert C. Barnes and the continued endurance of the Barnes Foundation long after the death of its founder, including the controversial events surrounding the Foundation’s move to Philadelphia. Includes full-color reproductions of masterpieces from the collection.
Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803
Bob Frishman
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781606180099
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
The first comprehensive study of the life and times of colonial Philadelphia clockmaker Edward Duffield (1730–1803), this lavishly illustrated volume catalogues and describes seventy-one known clocks and instruments built by Duffield standing proudly in major American museums and collections.
This exhibition catalog examines the work of William Bartram, Titian Ramsay Peale, and John James Audubon. Advancing scientific innovations even as they relied on and promoted colonization and slavery, their work speaks to the conflicted nature of our nation’s early history and the place of natural historians in that complex landscape.
Exhibited for the first time: 300 silkscreen prints of Marilyn Monroe produced in 1968, based on Andy Warhol’s 1962 iconic portrait of the movie star. But are they Warhol?
Nine studies focused on East and South Asia, the Islamic world, and Europe illuminate how early modern courts and societies shaped, and were shaped by, the landscape, including both physical sites, such as gardens, palaces, cities, and hunting parks, and conceptual ones, such as those of frontiers, idealized polities, and the cosmos.
