Illuminating the Medieval Hunt: Power and Performance in Gaston Fébus' Le livre de chasse

Illuminating the Medieval Hunt: Power and Performance in Gaston Fébus' Le livre de chasse

abstract: Vivid illuminations of the aristocratic hunt decorate Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS. fr. 616, an early fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript of Le livre de chasse composed by Gaston Fébus, Count of Foix and Viscount of Béarn (1331-1391 C.E.), in 1389. Gilded miniatures visualize...

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Other Authors: Pratt-Sturges, Rebekah Lynn (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2017
Subjects:
Art history
Cultural anthropology
Medieval history
animal studies
critical theory
illumination
manuscript
nobility
patronage
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44227

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