Christopher de Hamel

Una extraordinaria exploración del mundo medievalGrandes manuscritos medievales es un cautivador viaje por doce manuscritos ilustrados medievales. Christopher de Hamel, bibliotecario de la prestigiosa Biblioteca Parker de la Universidad de Cambridge, acompaña al lector durante mil años de historia medieval para descubrir qué secretos contienen estos volúmenes y qué nos dicen del mundo moderno. Durante este recorrido por la historia, conoceremos a reyes, reinas, santos, escribas, artistas, bibliotecarios, ladrones, tratantes de arte y coleccionistas. Seguiremos los pasos de estos preciados y excepcionales códices a lo largo del tiempo y la geografía, conoceremos el papel que jugaron en el tablero político occidental y quiénes fueron sus dueños. Gracias a la erudita narración de De Hamel, descubriremos algunas de las más deslumbrantes obras de arte de nuestra cultura y cómo ha viajado el conocimiento a lo largo de los siglos.Parte libro de viajes, parte historia detectivesca, Grandes manuscritos medievales es una deliciosa conversación con el lector en la que estos volúmenes se erigen en fascinantes protagonistas de la cultura y la historia durante el milenio en que se forjó Europa.Ganador del Wolfson History PrizeGanador del Duff Cooper Prize «Un libro delicioso […] repleto de gloriosas y bellísimas imágenes de manuscritos medievales a todo color.» The New York Times Book Review «Las aventuras de Christopher de Hamel con algunos de los mayores tesoros de la cultura occidental superan en erudición y entretenimiento a El nombre de la rosa, de Umberto Eco.» Diarmaid MacCulloch «Una expedición intelectual incomparable […].Una lectura increíblemente fascinante y amena.» Neil MacGregor «De Hamel nos cuenta historias fascinantes, escandalosas, divertidas y sumamente entretenidas […]. Su entusiasmo e ingenio son irresistibles. Grandes manuscritos medievales es un libro de maravillas.» John Banville

The Book A compelling, highly readable history of the Bible as a book.Christopher de Hamel This important volume tells for the first time the story of the Bible as a book, tracing its publication in endless forms and numerous languages from its origins to the present day Covers the original languages of Hebrew and Greek, the Latin Vulgate translation of Saint Jerome, the manuscript Bibles of the Middle Ages, the first printing and the translations of Protestant reformers, right up to the flood of new versions in the 20th century Concludes with the modern discovery of papyrus fragments and Dead Sea Scrolls, which have cast important new light on the origins of the Bible Contains more than 200 rich, fascinating and varied illustrations of Bibles from all times and places .A compelling, highly readable, scrupulously factual and unbiased history of the Bible as a book, with over 200 rich, fascinating and varied illustrations of Bibles from all times and places. The Bible is the most widely circulated book ever written. The Book: A History of the Bible tells for the first time the momentous story of the Bible as a book, tracing its publication in endless forms and numerous languages from its origins to the present day. The clear and highly readable narrative includes an account of the Old and New Testaments in their original languages of Hebrew and Greek, the Latin Vulgate translation of Saint Jerome, the magnificent manuscript Bibles of the Middle Ages, Guttenberg and the first printed Bible, and the translations of Wycliffe, Luther and the Protestant reformers. Continuing with missionary Bibles, the emergence of the modern Bible publishing industry and the mass of twentieth-century translations and versions, it concludes with the modern discovery of papyrus fragments and Dead Sea Scrolls which have cast important new light on the origins of the Bible. Christopher de Hamel writes as a historian. Without being evangelical or polemical, he bases his text scrupulously on actual surviving Bibles and the historical circumstances in which they were made. Scholarly and authoritative, The Book provides a new, clear-sighted, thought-provoking and utterly gripping account of the origins and history of the world's most influential book

A narrative account of the Bible as a book and an artefact, from the earliest fragments found in the Egyptian desert to the many modern translations. The author seeks to write as an impartial historian and focuses on the manufacture, translation and distribution of Bibles throughout history.

La colección "Artesanos medievales" es una colección de libros que tienen como asunto el estudio tanto de los distintos artistas anónimos que trabajaron durante la Edad Media bajo el anonimato de los gremios y de los talleres como de los distintos objetos o construcciones realizadas por los artesanos medievales, dando así un panorama muy poco conocido de la labor atística y social de los mismos. Cada grupo de elementos (armaduras, edificios, etc.) es una forma de adentrarse en la vida cotidiana de los pueblos y las ciudades, estableciendo, además, las diferentes relaciones sociales que se daban entre artesanos y medio social. El detallismo aparece así como una manera de comprender lo más general. En este volúmen dedicado a los escribas e iluminadores se estudia desde los procesos de fabricado y preparado del pergamino, plumas, pintura y tintas, hasta la realización del manuscrito. El examen de la función del librero o la carrera profesional de cierto número de escribas e iluminadores, que son no solamente monjes sino también artesanos laicos, completan este panorama que se extiende desde el siglo XI hasta el XIV.

The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. But we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence.

Exquisite intelligent illuminating mischievous delightful The TimesThe acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of historyThe illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge But we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made collected and preserved them through the centuries and to whom they owe their existence This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years A monk in Normandy a prince of France a Florentine bookseller an English antiquary a rabbi from central Europe a French priest a Keeper at the British Museum a Greek forger a German polymath a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America all of them were participants in what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club This exhilarating fraternity and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very d