The Making of the Bibles Moralisées

“John Lowden’s ambitious new study of the most opulent and complex manuscripts produced during the High Middle Ages is a brilliant, groundbreaking work. For the reader who has been engaged in anyway with moralized Bibles, a careful reading of this detailed and densely argued text will be rewarded with an array of major revisions touching almost every aspect of the existing scholarship.” —Suzanne Lewis, CAA Reviews

“John Lowden’s impressive powers of analysis and interpretation have been fully engaged with remarkably fruitful results in this important study. His research sheds important new light on virtually every major aspect of each codex individually and on the Bibles Moralisées as a genre of medieval manuscript illumination overall. This brilliant scholarly work will become the benchmark by which all subsequent studies on the Moralized Bibles will be measured.” —Jaroslav Folda, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“Lowden has provided us with an excellent introduction to the Moralized Bibles.” —Laura Light, Manuscripta

“(T)he indispensable foundation on which all future scholarship on these manuscripts will depend.” —Joan A. Holladay, The Medieval Review (TMR)