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Text, Image, Message Saints in Medieval Manuscript Illustrations
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Leslie Ross
Book Code: GM9046
ISBN: 0-313-29046-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29046-6
280 pages, photographs
Greenwood Press
Publication: 5/30/1994
List Price: $126.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • ...a very useful survey of the major forms of hagiographic imagery in manuscript illumination. This book provides an excellent introduction to the characteristics, methodologies, and evolution of hagiographic imagery.
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Description: Ross 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.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Origins: The Growth and Development of Hagiographic Imagery
  • Medieval Hagiographic Manuscript Types and Contexts: Overview
  • Illustrations in Calendars and Martyrologies: All Saints
  • Illustrated Biography: Libelli Manuscripts
  • Passionary Illustrations
  • Hagiographic Illustration in the Byzantine World: Menologia and Synaxaries
  • Hagiographic Illustration in Non-Hagiographic Manuscripts
  • Image Recycling in Hagiographic Illustration
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 93-35869
LCC Class: ND3338
Dewey Class: 745.6
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