{"product_id":"2940170690671","title":"Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeetings with Remarkable Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the listener into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval historyamp;mdash;and sometimes about the modern world too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn so doing, de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, and collectors. He traces the elaborate journeys which these exceptionally precious artifacts have made through time, shows us how they have been copied, who has owned them or lusted after them (and how we can tell), how they have been embroiled in politics, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty and as symbols of national identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the earliest book in medieval England to the incomparable \u003ci\u003eBook of Kells\u003c\/i\u003e to the oldest manuscript of \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, these encounters tell a narrative of intellectual culture and art over the course of a millennium. Two of the manuscripts visited are now in libraries of North America, the Morgan Library in New York and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47160831312112,"sku":"2940170690671","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170690671_p0.jpg?v=1763812887","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170690671","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}