Fair and Varied Forms: Visual Textuality in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts / Edition 1

by Mary C. Olson

Overview

First published in 2003. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415942676
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/25/2002
Series:	Studies in Medieval History and Culture , #15
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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.