CHAPTER VIII. Page 106 to 125.

THE ANGLO-NORMAN SCHOOL.

The Norman invasion; development of architecture and other arts; creation of the Anglo-Norman school; magnificent _Psalters_; the Angevin kingdom; the highest development of English art in the thirteenth century; Henry III. as an art patron; the rebuilding and decorating of the Church and Palace of Westminster; paintings copied from manuscripts; the Painted Chamber; English sculpture; the Fitz-Othos and William Torell; English needlework (_opus Anglicanum_); the Lateran and Pienza copes; Anglo-Norman manuscripts of the _Vulgate_; the style of their illuminations; manuscripts produced in Benedictine monasteries; unity of style; various kinds of background in miniatures; magnificent manuscripts of the _Psalter_; the Tenison _Psalter_; manuscripts of the _Apocalypse_; their extraordinary beauty; their contrast to machine-made art; English manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; the results of the Black Death; the Poyntz _Horae_; the _Lectionary_ of Lord Lovel; the characteristics of English ornament; the introduction of portrait figures; the Shrewsbury manuscript; "Queen Mary's Prayer-book;" the works of Dan Lydgate; specially English subjects; manuscripts of _Chronicles_ and _Histories_.