Text, Image, Message: Saints in Medieval Manuscript IllustrationsRoss provides a broad survey of pictures and texts concerning saints, from the Early Christian through the late Gothic period. Both Western and Byzantine material is included. Beginning with the earliest pictures of and stories about saints, the book traces the evolution of hagiographic imagery primarily in manuscript contexts. Because of its cross-disciplinary nature, it will be of interest to audiences interested in Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western medieval culture: religion, society, politics, and art. No other book to date is organized similarly in providing detailed descriptions for the identification of medieval manuscripts with hagiographic texts and illustrations. |
Contents
The Growth | 1 |
Medieval Hagiographic | 21 |
Passionary Illustrations | 65 |
Copyright | |
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Text, Image, Message: Saints in Medieval Manuscript Illustrations Leslie D. Ross Limited preview - 1994 |
Text, Image, Message: Saints in Medieval Manuscript Illustrations Leslie D. Ross Limited preview - 1994 |
Text, Image, Message: Saints in Medieval Manuscript Illustrations Leslie Ross No preview available - 1994 |
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Aethelstan Psalter appear Augustine's Passionary Basil II Bibliothèque Municipale Bibliothèque Nationale biography British Library Byzantine art Byzantine manuscripts calendar Cambrai Cambrai Lectionary Canterbury Carolingian chapter Christ Christian art Christological church Clarendon Press Conway Library Courtauld Institute Demetrius depicted detailed Drogo Sacramentary Dumbarton Oaks Papers early Christian period early-twelfth century eleventh century episodes example figures folio frescoes full-page Gregory of Nazianzus hagiographic illustration hagiographic imagery hagiographic narrative hagiographic scenes hagiographic texts historiated initials iconography Illuminated Illuminated Manuscripts illustrated manuscript images Institute of Art late-eleventh century Lectionary libelli liturgical London manuscript contexts martyrdom of St Martyrology martyrs Maurus medieval art Menologium Miniatures motifs narrative scenes Oxford Painting Pamplona Pamplona Bibles parallels Paris Passionary manuscripts pictorial cycles pictorial hagiography pictorial narrative Romanesque Sacramentary Saint Cuthbert saintly scriptural Stephen stoning of St Studies Synaxary textual themes Theodore Psalter twelfth century Vatican Library vignettes visual vitae Weitzmann western Zwiefalten Zwiefalten Chronicle