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by Michelle P. Brown (Author) "THE LUTTRELL PSALTER is one of the supreme expressions of Gothic, an international style but here imbued with a distinctively English character ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: British Library Publishing Division (14 Oct 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0712349596
  • ISBN-13: 978-0712349598
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"A delightful exploration of a singular manuscript. . . . Brown''s examination of its contents reveals issues of historic importance while also giving insight into the personal lives of the Luttrell family and those close to them."-Library Journal


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Depicting scenes of everyday rustic life with vibrant color and earthy wit, the Luttrell Psalter is a unique and vivid document of British culture in the 1320s. Unlike other illuminated manuscripts, the Luttrell Psalter does not focus only on religious imagery, but instead portrays the domestic dramas of the day. Scenes of farming, archaic medical treatments, music and dance, and even marital friction spill over the psalms and cover the margins of this celebrated book. In 'The World of the Luttrell Psalter,' Michelle Brown unravels the Psalter's history and sets it firmly within medieval society. A crucial element of the Psalter's cultural context is its patron, wealthy landowner Sir Geoffrey Luttrell. Brown reveals that knowledge of Luttrell and the book's audience is as important to understanding the work's meaning as its striking imagery. Brown's engaging narrative traces the inspiration and creation of the book, identifying its forebears while elucidating its originality. With lavish illustrations that highlight the inventiveness of the manuscript, 'The World of the Luttrell Psalter' is an appealing guide to a remarkable artifact.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Leaving your Ferrari to God, 15 Feb 2009
By Nicholas Casley (Plymouth, Devon, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is an informative and yet quite frustrating book. It is ninety-six pages long, but well produced and presented, as one would expect when the publisher is the British Library. It serves a good purpose, but there are criticisms to be made.

The book consists of a short introduction and seven chapters. The first considers the Luttrell family, and it soon becomes apparent that nothing much of certainty can be said about them, the book, its content, and its meaning, for Michelle Brown's text is full of such phrases as "may be", "might be", "it is possible" and "I would suggest". I am not in a position to comment about the veracity of the facts about the Luttrell's family background in the midlands of England, but I must admit to being worried when early on the author refers to Charing Cross being named after the Eleanor cross that was erected there following the death of Edward I's queen in 1290: the place-name Cyrringe is dated to c.1000. This put me on my guard for the rest of the book, especially with regard to facts that were not really pertinent to Michelle Brown's specialism as the former Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library. Even the interpretations made by the author about the depictions in the psalter I felt often were based on mere conjecture.

And I was surprised to find some clear errors of interpretation. For example, in the banqueting scene at the foot of folio 208r, Brown says four of those present "stare frontally at the viewer", when in fact on two do so; the other two whose faces are turned frontally, actually look to their sides instead. Brown also refers to a dog being depicted on several occasions as if the depictions are of the same animal: instead one dog is black, wears a white collar, and has a spindly tail; whilst the other referred to is red, has no collar, and has a stumpy tail. She also misreads the scene at the windmill, describing the young man's sack as empty when it is quite clearly not so! And the woman in folio 76v is not pointing at the man's loins, but moving a piece on the board game that she is playing with him!

If interpretation is open to opinion, even the date of the book's compilation is unfixed too with suggested years ranging from 1320 to 1345, depending on the choice of the interpreter. But the research that has been carried out into the compilation of the book has led to some firm conclusions being made, such as that it is "the work of at least six artists working in two, or possibly three separate campaigns." Examples from pages of the work of artists one to four are given, but I found the argument difficult to follow. At the very end of the book, the finer and more technical aspects are listed, such as provenance, textual contents, codicology and the artists with their division of labour. However, I felt that this section should surely have appeared at the very beginning after the introduction.

Brown's writing is generally clear and readily understandable, though lacking perhaps in joie de vivre. She has some interesting comparisons to make, such as Sir Geoffrey Luttrell's leaving of his warhorse and trappings as a mortuary offering to the church in his will being "the equivalent of leaving the parish priest your Ferrari." But equally, the language can become daunting in places: for example on page 31, there is a sentence comprising 106 words.

There is a list of further reading at the end, but no index, and hear we come up against the main complaint I have with this volume. This is not because of a lack of general index per se (which nevertheless is a bit shameful of the British Library) but because of a lack of any reference point to the pages of the Luttrell Psalter itself. References in the text are made to pages in the psalter, but how does one then seek out the illustration without having to go through the whole book from beginning to end in the hope that there is a reproduction somewhere of the relevant reference? I became very annoyed at this and so compiled my own index of psalter pages that are illustrated in the book, but I should not have had to do this!

The illustrations themselves are, of course, beautiful and of very good quality.
But until the published facsimile of the Luttrell Psalter is reduced in price and we can all wallow in the richness of its complete illustration, this guide will have to do for now as a not-too-brilliant but useful nevertheless introduction.

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