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Legend of Roland in the Middle Ages Hardcover - 1971

by Lejeune, Rita; Stiennon, Jacques


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  • Title Legend of Roland in the Middle Ages
  • Author Lejeune, Rita; Stiennon, Jacques
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 410 pp, 63 colour plates + 396 p
  • Publisher Phaidon Press Ltd, London
  • Date 1971
  • ISBN 9780714814148
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The Legend of Roland in the Middle Ages. Volume 1 only.

by LeJeune (Rita and Jaques Stiennon, translated by Dr Christine Trollope).:

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London. The Phaidon Press. 1st edition 1971.. large 4to. dustwrapper. 410pp. 63 tipped in colour plates. [ this is volume 1 only, volume 2 contains the b/w illustrations and the index]. wrapper rubbed on its edges & spine otherwise a good copy. Legend of Roland. European Romanesque & Gothic Ecclesiastical Art. French Medieval Myths, Legends, Count of the Breton Marches. Valley of Roncevaux. Saragossa. Literature & History. 0714814148
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The Legend of Roland in the Middle Ages  [ Complete in 2 Volumes ]

The Legend of Roland in the Middle Ages [ Complete in 2 Volumes ]

by Lejeune Rita & Stiennon Jacques

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London: Phaidon, 1971. Complete in 2 volumes. Books measure 30x27.cm.410pp,396pp, illustrated throughout. Bound in original publishers red cloth, with gilt lettering. Both bindings in good clean firm condition. Dust jackets lightly rubbed, some abrasion wear on edges. Jackets in good clean condition. Internally, pages clean. A good clean set. . Publishers Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Large Quarto.
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The Legend of Roland in the Middle Ages.Two Volume Set

by LEJEUNE, Rita and STIENNON, Jaques.:

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London: Phaidon Press. First edition. Two volumes Large Qto., 410pp + 396pp. 510 plates 63 in colour, tipped in. Magnificently illustrated from contemporary source material. Both vols. in Very Good condition with like dustwrappers. . Very Good. Hardcovers. 1971.
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The Legend of Roland in the Middle Ages (2-volume set)

by Lejeune, Rita and Jacques Stiennon

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London: Phaidon, 1971. Hardcover. VG- (Ex-art library, with plastic spine labels; marks on book block edges and on outermost pages, incl. pockets; has average aging overall otherwise; color plates are vivid.). 2 vols. Crimson cloth, gilt letters on spines, gilt decorations on front covers, dark and pictorial dust jackets in mylar covers, 806 total pp., 510 BW illus., 63 laid-in color plates. The complete two-volume set, originally published as La Legende de Roland dans l'art du Moyen Age in 1966. "The first detailed study to be made of the iconography of Roland, the hero of the Chanson de Roland, best known literary epic of the Middle Ages, as he is depicted in sculpture, wall painting, the minor and above all, manuscript illumination. It covers the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries in France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany." (dj).
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The Legend of Roland in the Middle Ages

by Lejeune, R. ; Stiennon, J

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Phaidon Press Limited, London, first English-language edition, 1971. 2 vols, cloth, gilt cover-device, 4to, 31 cm,. 410 pp, 63 colour plates + 396 pp, 510 black-and-white ills. From the blurb: "This scholarly work is the first detailed study to be made of the iconography of Roland, the hero of the Chanson de Roland. best known literary epic of the Middle Ages, as he is depicted in sculpture, wall painting, the minor arts and above all, manuscript illumination. It covers the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries in France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany, and reveals the evolution of Roland from a stock figure in ecclesiastical art, the conqueror of the heathen, through sainthood at Chartres, into an individualized chivalric hero, and his decline in later manuscripts and woodcuts into a 'type'. The work throws much light on changing medieval thought and taste. All the objects and miniatures discussed are illustrated. " Contents: Part I : The Romanesque Period I. Roland and… Read More
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Legend of Roland in the Middle Ages

by Rita Lejeune; Jacques Stiennon; Translator-C. Trollope

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Phaidon Press Ltd, 1971-08. Hardcover. Good.
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The Legend of Roland in the Middle Ages (Two Volume Set)

by Lejeune, Rita & Jacques Siennon

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Phaidon Press Ltd. Used - Very Good. 1971. First Edition Hardcover. Cloth, dj., large oblong 4to, 410 pp.; 396 pp. Profusely illustrated. Slight wear to edges of dj.'s, but very sound overall.. (Subject: Medieval, Art & Illumination.)
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