Imagining the past in France. History in manuscript painting 1250

How did people in the European Middle Ages understand history, and their place within history?. Imagining the past in Franceexplores the ways in which history was written about and portrayed in France between 1250 and 1500. With more than two hundred illustrations, this volume offers a close look at the manner in which history was imagined and presented in illuminated manuscripts and other works of visual art produced in the region that was rapidly becoming the nation of France.