Graphic devices and the early decorated book /

The early medieval decorated book illuminates our understanding of the processes of cultural transition from late Antiquity to the Middle Ages and from a trans-continental super-power to western and eastern nation states and revivals of empire - Byzantine and Carolingian. The study of 'graphica...

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Other Authors: Brown, Michelle (Michelle P.) (Editor), Garipzanov, Ildar H. (Editor), Tilghman, Benjamin C. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, 2017.
Series:Boydell studies in medieval art and architecture.
Subjects:
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The role of graphic devices in understanding the early decorated book
  • I. Graphic devices in the early medieval book: cross-cultural perspectives on a comples pheomenon: "In the image and likeness of God": the dedication monogram in the calendar of 354 and early medieval monogrammatic initials / Ildar H. Garipzanov
  • 'Character' and the power of the letter / David Ganz
  • Tangled voices: writing, drawing and the Anglo-Saxon decorated initial / Catherine E. Karkov
  • Graphic visualization in liturgical manuscripts in the early Middle Ages: the initial "O" in the Sacramentary of Gellone / Eric Palazzo
  • Graphic quire marks and Qur'anic verse markers in Frankish and Islamic manuscripts from the seventh and eighth centuries / Lawrence Nees
  • The graphic cross as salvific mark and organizing principle: making, marking, shaping / Cynthia Hahn
  • II. Insular and Carolingian graphicacy: shared practices in divergent settings: The visual rhetoric of insular decorated incipit openings / Michelle P. Brown
  • The relationship between letter and frame in insular and Carolingian manuscripts / Tina Bawden
  • Patterns of meaning in insular manuscripts: Folio 183r in the Book of Kells / Benjamin C. Tilghman
  • Graphic and figural representation in Touronian Gospel illumination / Beatric Kitzinger
  • III. Contrast and commonality: Byzantine manuscripts: Meaning from the margins: graphic signs, frames and initials in a ninth-century Byzantine manuscript / Leslie Brubaker
  • An exercise in extravagance and abundance: some thoughts on the marginalia decorata in the Codex Parasinus graecus 216 / Kallirroe Linardou
  • IV. Embeddding graphic devices in understanding the complete codex: externalizstion and internalization: The cross on the book: diagram, ornament, materiality / David Ganz
  • Graphic glosses and argumentative ornament / Herbert L. Kessler.

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