xv, 408 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Note
"This book focuses on one of the most attractive yet poorly understood features of late-medieval manuscript illumination: the portrait of the book owner at prayer within the pages of her own prayer-book"-- Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-397) and index
Introduction: self-reflection, devotion, and vision in the image of the book owner at prayer -- 1. Saving face: the Veronica and the Visio Dei -- 2. From Memoria to Visio: revising the donor -- 3. Framing vision: the image of the book owner and the reflexive mode of seeing -- 4. Domesticating devotion: body, space, and self -- 5. Power and the portrait: negotiating gender
