Illuminating the Middle Ages: Tributes to Prof. John Lowden from His Students, Friends and Colleagues

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42232-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 79, 482 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1093 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word

The twenty-eight essays in this collection showcase cutting-edge research in manuscript studies, encompassing material from late antiquity to the Renaissance. The volume celebrates the exceptional contribution of John Lowden to the study of medieval books. The authors explore some of the themes and questions raised in John’s work, tackling issues of meaning, making, patronage, the book as an object, relationships between text and image, and the transmission of ideas. They combine John’s commitment to the close scrutiny of manuscripts with an interrogation of what the books meant in their own time and what they mean to us now.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cleaver, Laura

Bovey, Alixe

Donkin, Lucy

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Drucktechnik und Reprografische Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Byzantinisch
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Introduction

1 Were Early Medieval Picture Cycles Recycled from Late Antiquity? New Evidence for a Lost Archetype of the Apollonius Pictus—An Illustrated Classic

Michelle P. Brown

2 Milanese Early Medieval Psalters: Models and Influences from West and East

Francesca Demarchi

3 Noli me tangerein the Codex Egberti (Reichenau,c.977–93) and in the Gospel Book of Otto III (Reichenau, 998–1000): Visual Exegesis in Context

Barbara Baert

4 The Green Tinted Souls of Dives and Lazarus in the Codex Aureus of Echternach

Maria R. Grasso

5 Portraits of Terence, the African

Beatrice Radden Keefe

6 Manuscripts Face to Face: León and the Holy Roman Empire in the Mid-Eleventh Century

Rose Walker

7 The Two Pictures Cycles in Early Manuscripts of St Anselm’s Prayers

T.A. Heslop

8 Early Cistercian Manuscripts from Clairvaux

Kathleen Doyle

9 The Imagery of Noah’s Ark in the Mosaic Decoration of Monreale Cathedral

Mika Takiguchi

10 Some Observations on the Artists of the Leiden Psalter (Leiden, University Library MS B.P.L. 76A) and Their Working Practices

Emma Luker

11 A Portrait of Abraham Ibn Ezra (Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal MS 1186)

Patricia Stirnemann and Judith Kogel

12 The Virgin and Child in the Map Psalter (London, British Library Additional MS 28681)

Sally Dormer

13 Seeing and Reading the Matthew Paris Saints’ Lives

Martin Kauffmann

14 Extended Shelf-life: Manuscript Consolidation in an English Monastic Library

Kathryn Gerry

15 Domesday in Disguise

Jessica Berenbeim

16 From Warwickshire to New York via Canterbury: The Travels and Tribulations of the Bible of Richard of Sholdone

Frederica Law-Turner

17 Virgin, Devil, Bishop, King: Nicola Pisano’s Pulpit in Siena and Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa Maria

Deirdre Jackson

18 Of Venerable Teachers and Boisterous Students: Maistre Brunetto and the Arabic Aristotle

Hanna Wimmer

19 Lost and Found in the Meditationes Vitae Christi, Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 410

Renana Bartal

20 Ivory Booklets, Devotion in Cologne

Sarah M. Guérin

21 Gothic Ivories Unhinged

Catherine Yvard

22 Monks and Ants in the Presence of Death. A Re-reading of Pliny the Elder in Quattrocento Illumination

Christian Heck

23 The Ridware Cartulary and the Great Seal of England

Julian Luxford

24 Sin and Salvation in the Hours of Jean de Dunois

Richard Gameson

25 Harreteau and His Unfinished Book of Hours

Rowan Watson

26 Looking Beneath the Surface: Subterranean Space in the Kuntá Hora Cantional

Lucy Donkin

27 A Manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio’sDe Mulieribus Claris from the Library of the Benedictine Convent of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore in Milan?

Anne-Marie Eze

28 Bloodlines: Medicine and Cosmology in France, China, and Mexico

Jack Hartnell

Index of manuscripts

General index

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Cleaver, Ph.D. (2008), University of London, is Ussher Lecturer in Medieval Art at Trinity College Dublin. Her most recent monograph is Illuminated History Books in the Anglo-Norman World, 1066-1272 (Oxford, 2018).

Alixe Bovey, Ph.D. (2000), University of London, is Head of Research at The Courtauld Institute of Art. She has published widely on medieval manuscripts and is currently working on a project on giants.

Lucy Donkin, Ph.D. (2005), University of London, is a lecturer in History and History of Art at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on sacred space, and she is co-editor of Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West (Oxford, 2012).