Drawings in Books in Medieval Britain from the Ninth Century to the Reformation

The first broad and long study of a major aspect of British medieval art, examining the historical relationships between medieval drawings and books. The art of drawing and its products had a determining relationship to the visual arts of the Middle Ages.They also had other purposes, which if understood, help one to grasp the broader availability and usefulness of the medium.This groundbreaking study deals particularly with the historical relationships between medieval drawings and books.Using a wide range of material and documentary evidence, it explains how book-bound drawings may be defined, classified, and understood in relation to their physical settings and the ends they were made to serve.In orientation, the study is primarily art historical: most of its arguments emerge from curiosity about the psychology and experience of making drawn images.As such, it tackles a surprisingly neglected field. Because it deals with a pervasive aspect of book-design, it also makes a basic contri