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Postgraduate Course: Expanding the Book: Image and Literacy in Valois France (HIAR11040)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course examines the development of illustrated books in France from the fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries, exploring ways in which illuminated manuscripts and early printed books were designed to function visually and aesthetically, as well as textually.
Course description Particular attention is given to programmes of illustration for which textual expositions of the pictures have survived, permitting clear assessments of the aims of the artists, their supervisors and their patrons. Several kinds of book are considered, including Books of Hours, new translations into French of works by classical authors, and late medieval romances and collections of poetry. A special focus is how the demands of audiences for new forms of book illustration expanded considerably during this period, challenging artists to devise evermore imaginative decorative schemes and pictorial possibilities. The interplay of sacred and secular themes is one topic that characterises the whole period.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  15
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 166 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 4,000 word essay
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Assess key developments in the pictorial arts of the book in France between c.1380 and c.1520, especially in relation to examples in the Centre for Research Collections in the University of Edinburgh.
  2. Engage with approaches that help to identify, date and contextualize illuminated manuscripts and early printed books during this period.
  3. Interpret examples of illumination of this period by means of visual analysis.
  4. Apply critical attitudes to understanding illuminated manuscripts in their original contexts through observation and through reading of original documentary and literary sources.
  5. Evaluate the significance of the arts of the book in France during this period within the broader history of Western visual culture.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Course URL http://www.arthistory.ed.ac.uk
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information Location will be confirmed in Handbook
KeywordsIllumination; Book of Hours; Charles V; Charles VIII; René of Anjou; Pucelle; Limbourgs; Fouquet; Pe
Contacts
Course organiserDr Tom Tolley
Tel: (0131 6)50 4115
Email: Tom.Tolley@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Remi Jankeviciute
Tel: (0131 6)51 5773
Email: Ramune.Jankeviciute@ed.ac.uk
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