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Janet Backhouse (born Corsham, Wiltshire, 8 February 1938; died 3 November 2004) was a leading authority in the field of illuminated manuscripts. Backhouse was educated at Stonar School and Bedford College, London. On 17 September 1962 she joined the British Museum's Department of Manuscripts as an Assistant Keeper.〔Pamela Porter and Shelley Jones, "Janet Backhouse: Colleague and Friend", in ''Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters: Essays in Honour of Janet Backhouse'', edited by Michelle P. Brown and Scot McKendrick (London: The British Library, 1998), p. 11.〕 In 1998 she retired from the British Library (as it had since become) as Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts. By the end of her career "she had established an international reputation as one of the foremost scholars in her field".〔(Obituary ) in The Times, 29 December 2004. Accessed 3 August 2010.〕 A Festschrift was published on the occasion of her retirement, ''Illuminating the Book: Makers and Interpreters: Essays in Honour of Janet Backhouse'', edited by Michelle P. Brown and Scot McKendrick (1998). ==Bibliography== * ''The Illuminated Manuscript'' (1979) * ''The Lindisfarne Gospels'' (1981) * ''Books of Hours'' (1985) * ''The Luttrell Psalter'' (1989) * ''The Bedford Hours'' (1990) * ''The Isabella Breviary'' (1993) * ''The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library'' (1997) * ''The Sherborne Missal'' (1999) * ''Medieval Rural Life in the Luttrell Psalter'' (2000) * ''Medieval Birds in the Sherborne Missal'' (2001) * ''Illumination from Books of Hours'' (2004) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Janet Backhouse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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