Perhaps no other art form captures the spirit of the Early Medieval period better than the illuminated manuscripts the were created by the monks and religious scholars. Illuminated manuscripts are very important to us today because they can express the ideas and values of the Medieval society. The manuscript I chose was created in Normandy in the city of Vellum. This manuscript was finished in 1180. Until the advent of the Book of Hours in the fourteenth century the Psalter, a book with the texts of the hundred and fifty psalms, was the mos ....