Summerfield B491: Borders and Cultural Dynamics

Visualizing Borders: Structural Innovation

Hybrid Marginal Cycles: Artistically Framed

Hybrid Marginal Cycles: Enriching Devotion

Devotion, Secularity, and Readership

This Book of Hours from the early sixteenth century was the product of a collaboration between the Parisian bookmakers Philippe Pigouchet and Simon Vostre. The pair worked together during an eighteen-year period to create hundreds of books of hours for the public to consume. Because these works were mass-produced and significantly less expensive than the handwritten and custom painted books popular among the elite, they appealed to a broad audience. Pigouchet, an engraver, is credited with creating the metalcuts used to print the complex and various illustrations that fill this book. This imagery, particularly the marginalia, reveals a rich collection of both religious and secular themes that were in dialogue with a range of contemporary media.