Mary C. Olson

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Visual Textuality in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts

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Produktbeschreibung

Research in Medieval Studies continues to be fresh in these volumes in the Medieval History and Culture series which includes studies on individual works and authors or Latin and vernacular literatures, historical personailities and events, theological and philosophical issues and new critical approaches to medieval literature and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000086614
• Artikelnr.: 59081474

Autorenporträt

Mary C. Olson

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE
Graphic Signification
Perception and Corwepnun
Potency of Images and Words
Modes of Interaction and Substitution: Metaphoric Tropes
Structure in the Graphic Field
Contexts
CHAPTER TWO
Inner Space, Outer Space, Graphic Space: Words and Picture; in Anglo
Saxon Culture
The Print
culture Bias
Anglo
Saxon Attitudes toward Scribes, Illustrators, and the Visual
Anglo
Saxon Readers and Writers
Anglo
Saxon Artisans
Image Veneration
Anglo
Saxon Illustrated hooks
Patterns of Identification: Schemata
Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: Metaphoric Tropes
Patterns of Relationship: Spatial Models
Images of Time
Time and Space on the Manuscript Page
CHAPTER THREE
The Reading Subject and the Devotional Text: The Harley Psalter
The Manuscript
The Psalms in Anglo
Saxon Life
Purpose of the Harley Psalter
Psalm 33
Psalm I
Psalm 113
Patterns of Relationship: Cosmic Space
Patterns of Identification: Schematizarion and the Representation of Xmen
The Political Nature of the Psalter
Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: More on Metaphor
CHAPTER FOUR
Narratise Time in Graphic Space: The Illustrated Hexateuch
The stanuscript
Patterns of Identification: Schemata
Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: Metaphoric Tropes
Patterns of Relationship: Movement in Narrative Space
Spatial Time
Allegorical lime
CHAPTER FIVBE
My Monster, Myself: The Mantels of the Last
The Manuscript
The Monstrous Races
Patterns of Ideiuification: Schematic Monsters
Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: Dog
Ants and Valkyry
eyed Beasts
Patterns of Relationship: Occupying the Framed Space
CHAPTER SIX
Marginal Portraits and the Fiction of Orality:
The Ellesmere Manuscript
Changes in the Making and Reading of Texts Since the Eleventh Century
Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales
Patterns of Relationship: Page Layout and the Reader
Modes of Identification: Schemata and Discursive Detail
Patterns of Substitution and Interaction: Metonymic Focus on Orality
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index.