Publisher's Synopsis
Where Homer reported mainly from the perspective of the Greeks in the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Latin editors of the Troy material, beginning with Virgil and the Aeneid, stood firmly on the side of the Trojans. This predestined history to be the epic epic of numerous noble families, cities and empires in Western Europe. When Benoît de Sainte-Maure conceived his novel de Troie, he made the narrative even more attractive by adapting its motifs to the knightly culture with its rites of war and love. This volume deals with a number of high-ranking illuminated books from the 14th and 15th centuries from Italy, Spain and Central Europe. Its creators transformed the Troy of the Knights into captivating art objects made of text and images that set new standards in the field of visual storytelling.
