Summary: One of the most compelling and provocative books of twelfth-century England, the Markyate Psalter was probably produced at St. Albans Abbey between 1120 and 1140. Heralded as a high point of English Romanesque illumination, the manuscript contains the Chanson de St. Alexis. Leading scholars of twelfth-century manuscript studies explore the Psalter, understanding it through new methodologies, pursuing innovative lines of inquiry. The collection shines fresh light on a well-known manuscript, and opens important lines of discourse about the book and its readers.

Contents: Introduction by Kristen Collins and Matthew Fisher ; Saint Anselm's "Grand Tour" and the Full-Page Picture Cycle in the Markyate Psalter, by T. A. Heslop ; The Patronage and Ownership of the Markyate Psalter, by Nigel Morgan ; Handling the Letter, by Aden Kumler ; The Repainting of Psalm 101 and Meaningful Change in the Markyate Psalter, by Kristen Collins and Nancy Turner ; Voicing the Psalms in the Markyate Psalter - Devotional Experience and Experiments with Images and Words, by Kerry Boeye ; Intercessory Prayer and the Initials of the Markyate Psalter, by Rachel Koopmans ; La Vie de Saint Alexis and the Alexis Quire in the Crusading Context, by Zrinka Stahuljak ; The Psalmist and the Saint - David, Alexis, and the Construction of Meaning in a Twelfth-Century Composite Manuscript, by Kathryn Gerry ; Blindness and Insight, Seeing and Believing - Reading Two Emmaus Sequences from St. Albans, by Morgan Powell ; Praying with Pictures in the Gough Psalter, by Martin Kauffmann ; Madness and Innocence - Reading the Infancy Cycle of a Romanesque Vita Christi, by Kristen Collins ; The St. Alban's Psalter Monograph of 1960 - Fifty Years Later, by J. J. G. Alexander. (Studies in Iconography: Themes and Variations, 2)

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