The Thing of Mine I have Loved Best

This book studies forty-six pieces of European jewelry ? pendants, reliquaries, amulets, and talismans ? from the eighth to the eighteenth century. The title ?The thing of mine I have loved the best? comes from the medieval will of an English duchess who bequeaths a reliquary jewel to her son. It expresses the sentiment that jewels appealed (then, as well as now) to the truest and strongest emotions. 0This book concerns objects that were ?meaningful? jewels, a term we choose to designate a wide range of precious wearable objects that had particular meaning. 00Exhibition: Les Enluminures, New York, USA (05.04. - 20.04.2018).