Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe: Regular, Repellant, and Redemptive Death

Cover
Table of Contents
Introduction
1.	The Office of the Dead in Christian Liturgy
	The Office of the Dead in Devotional Books
2.	Regular Death: Reading the Funeral and Imaginative Practice
	Seeing into the Office: Imagining
	Reader as Body
	Hearing Community: Image and Liturgy
3.	Repellent Death: Time, Rot, and the Death of the Body
	Death-Tide: Time and Decay of the Body
	‘Nothing more base and abominable’: The Corpse
	Disruption: The Lively Corpse
	Dry Bones: Death in Life
4.	The Redemptive Death: Job, Lazarus, and Death Undone
	Living Death: Job as the Social Body
	The Undead: Lazarus and the Promise of Resurrection
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
List of Illustrations
	Fig. 1-1. Royal MS 2 A XVIII ‘The Beauchamp Hours’, Hours, England (London), c. 1430, fol. 34. London: British Library. © The British Library Board.
	Fig. 2-1. Detail, Egerton MS 1151, Hours, England (Oxford), 1260–70, fol. 118. London: British Library. © The British Library Board.
	Fig. 2-2. Detail, Egerton MS 3277 ‘Bohun Psalter-Hours’, Psalter/Hours, England, c. 1361–73, fol. 142. London: British Library. © The British Library Board.
	Fig. 2-3. Detail, Additional MS 50001 ‘The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen’, Hours, England (London), c. 1425, fol. 55v. London: British Library. © The British Library Board.
	Fig. 2-4. MS 39, Hours, England, c. 1420–40, fol. 70. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Library, Heritage Collections. © The University of Edinburgh. CC-BY licence.
	Fig. 2-5. MS Richardson 34, Hours, England, c. 1470, fol. 88v. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Library, Harvard University.
	Fig. 3-1. MS BP.96, Hours, France (Paris), 1475–1500, fol. 133. New York: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
	Fig. 3-2. MS M.453, Hours, French, c. 1425–30, fol. 133v. New York: The Morgan Library and Museum. Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) in 1911. Photographic credit: The Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
	Fig. 3-3. Sloane MS 2468, Hours, France (Paris), c. 1420, fol. 163. London: British Library. © The British Library Board.
	Fig. 3-4. Harley MS 2934, Hours, France (Troyes), c. 1410, fol. 106. London: British Library. © The British Library Board.
	Fig. 3-5. MS 507, Hours, France (Paris), c. 1500, fol. 113. Paris: Bibliothèque Mazarine.
	Fig. 3-6. Yates Thompson MS 7, ‘The Hours of Dionora of Urbino’, Hours, Italy (Florence or Mantua), c. 1480, historiated initials added c. 1510–15, fol. 174. London: British Library. © The British Library Board.
	Fig. 3-7. Additional MS 25695, Hours, France, late 15th century, fol. 165. London: British Library. © The British Library Board.
	Fig. 3-8. MS Lewis E 92, Hours, France (Paris?), 1440–60, fol. 90v. Philadelphia: Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department.
	Fig. 3-9. MS Lewis E 212, Hours, France, c. 1475–1500, fol. 151r. Philadelphia: Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department
	Fig. 3-10. Yates Thompson MS 13 ‘The Taymouth Hours’, Hours, England, c. 1325–40, fols. 179v–180. London: British Library. © The British Library Board.
	Fig. 3-11. MS Lewis E 108, Hours, Flanders (Bruges), 1485–1500, fols. 109v–110, Belgium, Bruges, 1485–1500. Philadelphia: Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department.
	Fig. 3-12. MS Typ 180, Hours (frag.), Italy (Venice), early 15th century, fol. 1. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Library, Harvard University.
	Fig. 3-13. MS Q Med. 88, Hours, Flanders, late 15th century, fol. 110. Boston: Boston Public Library.
	Fig. 4-1, 2. MS Auct D. 4.4. ‘The Bohun Psalter and Hours’, Psalter/Hours, England, c. 1370–80, fols. 244, 248v. Oxford: Bodleian Library. CC-BY-NC 4.0 licence.
	Fig. 4-3a–c. Detail, Egerton MS 2019, Hours, France (Paris), c. 1440–50, fols. 167v, 175, 176. London: British Library. © The British Library Board.
	Fig. 4-4. MS Buchanan E. 3, Hours, France (Rouen), late 15th century, fol. 55. Oxford: Bodleian Library. CC-BY-NC 4.0 licence.
	Fig. 4-5. Detail, MS KB 71 A 23, Bible, France (Paris), c. 1320–40, fol. 203v. The Hague: Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland.
	Fig. 4-6. MS Auct D. 4.4. ‘The Bohun Psalter and Hours’, Psalter/Hours, England, c. 1370–80, fol. 243v. Oxford: Bodleian Library. CC-BY-NC 4.0 licence.
	Fig. 4-7. Additional MS 35314, Hours, Netherlands, late 15th/early 16th century, fol. 53v. London: British Library. © The British Library Board.
	Fig. 4-8. Detail, MS M. 179, Hours, France, 1480–1500, fol. 132v. New York: The Morgan Library and Museum. Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913). Photographic credit: The Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
	Fig. 4-9. MS M. 1003, Hours, France, c. 1465, fol. 153v. New York: The Morgan Library and Museum. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, Jr., 1979. Photographic credit: The Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
	Fig. 4-10. MS 21, ‘The Castle Hours’, Hours, France, late 15th century, fol. 69v. Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr Special Collections Library.
	Fig. 4-11. MS M.1001, Hours, France, c. 1475, fol. 114. New York, The Morgan Library and Museum. Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1979. Photographic credit: The Morgan Library & Museum, New York.