The Illustrated Old English Hexateuch, Cotton Ms. Claudius B.iv: The Frontier of Seeing And Reading in Anglo-saxon England - Couverture rigide

Withers, Benjamin C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802091040 ISBN 13 : 9780802091048

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2007

Synopsis

The Old English Hexateuch is a manuscript of the earliest vernacular translation of the Old Testament books of Genesis through Joshua. The texts belong, in part, to the Anglo-Saxon monk Aelfric (950?-1010?) and to several anonymous translators and at least one artist who compiled these translations and illustrated them with nearly four hundred narrative images, which are carefully integrated into the manuscript.

The Hexateuch testifies to the creativity and innovation of Anglo-Saxon bookmakers and stands as an important, if little known, witness to the relationship between early book-making technology and the history of literacy. Benjamin C. Withers examines codicological features of the manuscript, focusing on the working processes of the artist and scribes and seeking to understand how they integrated newly translated text with newly developed imagery so deftly. Grounded in art history and literary theory, this work considers the narrative relationships created by the careful design and seeks to place the Hexateuch within the broader social and cultural development of vernacular literacy in the eleventh century.

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À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin C. Withers is an associate professor and chair in the Department of Art at the University of Kentucky.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802091040
• ISBN 13: 9780802091048
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 464
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• Personne responsable: non disponible