How Long to Read Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

How Long Does it Take to Read Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 47 minutes to read Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts. Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Cooper Prize. A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Book Gift Guide Pick! Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and about the modern world, too. In so doing, de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, and collectors. He traces the elaborate journeys that these exceptionally precious artifacts have made through time and shows us how they have been copied, how they have been embroiled in politics, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty and as symbols of national identity, and who has owned them or lusted after them (and how we can tell). From the earliest book in medieval England to the incomparable Book of Kells to the oldest manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, these encounters tell a narrative of intellectual culture and art over the course of a millennium. Two of the manuscripts visited are now in libraries of North America, the Morgan Library in New York and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts allows us to experience some of the greatest works of art in our culture to give us a different perspective on history and on how we come by knowledge.

How long is Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts?

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel is 642 pages long, and a total of 161,784 words.

This makes it 217% the length of the average book. It also has 198% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 44 minutes to read Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts aloud.

What Reading Level is Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts?

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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