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October 24, 2006
Christopher de Hamel The Rothschilds and their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts London: British Library, 2004. 74 pp.; 32 color ills. Cloth $40.00 (0712348972)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2006.112

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Scholars of medieval art increasingly are investigating the modern vicissitudes of the objects and architecture they study. There is a wealth of work, for example, on neo-gothic imaginings of the Middle Ages, as manifest in nineteenth-century church restoration projects, the development of museums, and the construction of new buildings in medievalizing styles. But there are relatively few studies of modern attitudes toward manuscript illumination. This is surprising given the fact that contemporary scholars are so...