Images, Texts, and Marginalia in a Vows of the Peacock Manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24): With a Complete Concordance and Catalogue of Peacock Manuscripts - Couverture rigide

Leo, Domenic

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004250034 ISBN 13 : 9789004250031

Editeur : Brill, 2013

Synopsis

The "Vows of the Peacock" - written in 1312 and dedicated to Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège - recounts how Alexander the Great comes to the aid of a family of aristocrats threatened by Indians. The poem remained popular throughout the fourteenth century and was soon followed by two sequels. Twenty-six illuminated manuscripts constitute part of a catalogue and concordance of all Peacock manuscripts. One of the most provocative, (PML, MS G24), has twenty-two miniatures which illustrate chivalry and courtly love, as epitomized in the text. An unusually high number of scurrilous marginalia, however, surround them. An interdisciplinary exploration of iconography, reception, image-text-marginalia dynamics, and context reveals their ultimate polysemy as scatological comedians and serious harbingers of sin.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Domenic Leo, Ph.D. (2005) in Art History, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, is currently Adjunct Professor at Duquesne University,
Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. He is involved in multiple publications exploring illuminated manuscripts of French poet-composer Guillaume de Machaut's poetry and music.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004250034
• ISBN 13: 9789004250031
• Reliure: Cuir/luxe
• Nombre de pages: 448
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