Abstract
The manuscript London, British Library MS Yates Thompson 13 is one of several devotional manuscripts associated with the artistic patronage of Queen Isabella of France, but the only one to date from the period of her effective regency government of England, ca. 1326–1330. Examining a selection of its image cycles, and principally the sequence concerned with the romance hero Beves of Hampton, the article argues for their potential to be read as pictorial allegories for and commentaries on political events in England during the years 1325–1330. Selected pictorial cycles in the Taymouth Hours form a coherent set of visual warnings on the dangers of masculine power and female attempts at its exercise. Sustained visual reference and commentary on the regency government inflected by existing, textual political discourses helps demonstrate the spiritual dangers of Isabella’s current or former political position ca. 1326–1330.
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