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Subject(s)

• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval—Europe [Browse]

Editor

• Kitzinger, Beatrice E., 1980- [Browse]
• O'Driscoll, Joshua [Browse]

Series

• Sense, matter, and medium ; v. 2. [More in this series]
• Sense, matter, and medium ; volume 2 [More in this series]

Summary note

"The dissolution of the Carolingian Empire had a dramatic impact on the production of manuscripts across western Europe. Too often regarded in terms of imitation and decline, the illuminated books produced during the turbulant 10th and 11th centuries in fact reframe critical issues of historical inquiry, from the nature of artistic originality, to the significance of visual styles, to the working relations of artists and patrons. Focusing on rarely studied manuscripts from a range of continental regions, this volume argues for the central role of book painting in an age of transformation"--Back cover.

Notes

Maps on endpapers.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-469) and indexes.

Contents

• The master of the Bern Psychomachia: reconstructing an artistic personality in the late ninth century / Sabine Utz
• Creative borrowing in a Leiden Terence (UB, MS VLQ 38) / Beatrice Radden Keefe
• Imaging and imagining solidity / Megan C. McNamee
• Imaging time, computation and astronomy: a Computus collection from Micy-Saint-Mesmin (Vatican, BAV, MS Reg. lat. 1263) and early eleventh-century illumination in the Loire region / Charlotte Denoël
• Creativity at the end(s) of an empire: biblical compilation and illustration at the monastery of Ripoll / Erika Loic
• Working and reworking the book: the Saint-Vaast Gospels and its manuscript context / Tina Bawden
• Shaping tradition: the use of the Carolingian past in a tenth-century manuscript at the Morgan Library (PML, MS M.319) / Joshua O'Driscoll
• From gold script to sermo rusticus: book illumination in Northern Italy at the turn of the millennium, the case of Milan and Ivrea / Francesca Demarchi
• With pen and knife: illuminating blindness in a forgotten sacramentary / Lynley Anne Herbert
• Ovid at the crossroads: illustrations of the Metamorphoses in Apulia before 1071 / Loretta Vandi
• Avianus and the Apocalypse in Paris, BnF, Ms. n.a.l. 1132 / Karen Gross
• Embodied time, narrative, and performance in the Prüm Troper / Susannah Fisher
• In between, center, and periphery: the art of illumincation on the early medieval Iberian Peninsula / Kristin Böse
• Apollonius pictus reevaluated: Kurt Weitzmann's legacy and the multilayered historicity of medieval manuscripts / Anna Boreczky.

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Other title(s)

Re-defining manuscript illumination in the 10th and 11th centuries

ISBN

• 3110574675 (hardcover)
• 9783110574678 (hardcover)

OCLC

1028910940

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