During the seventeenth century, Dutch ministers built libraries and wrote books to fulfill their divine calling to guard the faith as it was entrusted to them and to encourage others in sound doctrine.

Do your heart and soul need encouragement, refreshment, and inspiration? Anne Neilson’s Angels is an exquisite, artful 40-day devotional inviting you to experience joy and comfort through an original angel painting, a thoughtful reflection, Bible verse, and prayer. Experience hope and comfort through Neilson's incredible, ethereal angel paintings combined with her poetic voice reflecting on poignant topics such as love, abundance, release, identity, and purpose. This stunning, conversation-starting coffee table book . . . opens with a generous foreword by Kathie Lee Gifford offers 40 inspirational devotions alongside beautiful, original angel paintings was selected as one of her 2020 Holiday Favorite Things by Hoda Kotb, co-anchor of Today makes a heartfelt gift for family and friends for Easter, Mother's Day, Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, or as a memorable housewarming present You’ll share an appreciation and love of Anne Neilson’s work alongside these well-known fans: Maria Shriver, journalist, author, former First Lady of California Jenna Bush Hager, co-host of Today Roma Downey, actress, producer, and author Let Scripture, prayer, and the beauty of Anne Neilson's Angels nurture your soul today. Look for additional inspirational, art-filled books from Anne Anne Neilson's Angels Guided Journal Entertaining Angels: True Stories and Art Inspired by Divine Encounters

The "Vows of the Peacock" - written in 1312 and dedicated to Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège - recounts how Alexander the Great comes to the aid of a family of aristocrats threatened by Indians. The poem remained popular throughout the fourteenth century and was soon followed by two sequels. Twenty-six illuminated manuscripts constitute part of a catalogue and concordance of all Peacock manuscripts. One of the most provocative, (PML, MS G24), has twenty-two miniatures which illustrate chivalry and courtly love, as epitomized in the text. An unusually high number of scurrilous marginalia, however, surround them. An interdisciplinary exploration of iconography, reception, image-text-marginalia dynamics, and context reveals their ultimate polysemy as scatological comedians and serious harbingers of sin.