Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England by Catherine E Karkov
This book explores the complex interrelationship between texts and drawings in the late tenth or early eleventh-century Junius II manuscript, the only surviving illustrated Anglo-Saxon poetic manuscript. The book, which contains a plate section of sixty-one illustrations, focuses on the way in which the drawings both illustrate the text and translate it into a new visual language. Poems and illustrations work to create a carefully crafted and unified manuscript, but both also use formulaic language, iconography and compositions to construct a web of intertextual and intervisual references that open the poems to readings far more diverse than those of the biblical books on which they are based. Together poems and drawings create a new and unique version of biblical history, and suggest ways in which biblical history relates to Anglo-Saxon history and the manuscript's Anglo-Saxon audience - a process which has been extended by the manuscript's many editors to include contemporary history and the contemporary reader.-
Anglo-Saxon Medicine
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Religion and Literature in Western England, 600-800
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Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World
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The Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church
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Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre
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Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century
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Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature
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The 'Laterculus Malalianus' and the School of Archbishop Theodore
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Trinity and Incarnation in Anglo-Saxon Art and Thought
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Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage
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The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England
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lfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham
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Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry
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The Composition of Old English Poetry
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The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf
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The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform
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Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry
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The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature
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Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century
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Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian
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Visible Song
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The Poetic Art of Aldhelm
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Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source
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Archbishop Theodore
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The Textuality of Old English Poetry
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Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England
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AElfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham
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Images of Community in Old English Poetry
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Old English Biblical Verse
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The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England
"..a fine start toward an important goal." SPECULUM
"Karkov...proposes a new and more sophisticated understanding of the relationship of text an image..In doing so she raises the level of discourse both for Junius II and for late Anglo-Saxon illumination in general." CAA Reviews
"A solid and thorough analysis of one of the most striking pieces of Anglo-Saxon codicological art that has come down to us. It will be valuable to everone working on the relation of text and image in Anglo-Saxon England." Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik
"... the results are definitely worth considering." Albion
"Karkov...proposes a new and more sophisticated understanding of the relationship of text an image..In doing so she raises the level of discourse both for Junius II and for late Anglo-Saxon illumination in general." CAA Reviews
"A solid and thorough analysis of one of the most striking pieces of Anglo-Saxon codicological art that has come down to us. It will be valuable to everone working on the relation of text and image in Anglo-Saxon England." Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik
"... the results are definitely worth considering." Albion
Professor Catherine E. Karkov has taught at Miami University since 1990 and is an affiliate in both the History and Women's Studies departments. She is editor of The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England: Basic Readings (New York, 1999), and co-editor of numerous books on the art and archaeology of early medieval England and Ireland.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521800693 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521800692 |
| Title | Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England |
| Author | Catherine E Karkov |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Anglo-Saxon England |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2001-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 286 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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