Imaging the Early Medieval Bible
Title | Imaging the Early Medieval Bible PDF eBook |
Author | John Williams |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0271017686 |
A unique exploration of the beginnings of biblical illustration and decoration.
Biblical Imagery in Medieval England, 700-1550
Title | Biblical Imagery in Medieval England, 700-1550 PDF eBook |
Author | Claus Michael Kauffmann |
Publisher | Harvey Miller |
Total Pages | 414 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Art |
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Using examples of manuscripts, medieval art, sculpture, wall-painting, metal work and stained glass, the author explores the use of Biblical imagery in art during the medieval period in England.
The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use
Title | The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Gameson |
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Total Pages | |
Release | 1994 |
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The Early Medieval Bible
Title | The Early Medieval Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Gameson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-01-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521100014 |
The significance of the Bible in the life, thought and culture of the early Middle Ages can hardly be overstated. Here eleven linked studies, embracing palaeography, history, art history, theology and textual scholarship, examine and interpret the evidence of Bible manuscripts (including gospel books and Psalters) in their cultural context from late antiquity to the thirteenth century. Subjects include the earliest Bible manuscripts, the Gospels in a missionary context, the scriptorium of Tours, the development of the early glossed Psalter, the Old Testament in tenth- and eleventh-century England, the Italian Giant Bibles, the origins of the Paris Bible, the illustration of the early Gothic Psalter and the planning and production of the Hamburg Bible. Together these essays provide a broad-ranging, authoritative treatment of themes which are of central importance for the history and culture of the times.
Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch
Title | Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothy Verkerk |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-03-28 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781107402003 |
The Ashburnham Pentateuch is an early medieval illuminated manuscript of the Old Testament whose pictures are among the oldest surviving and most extensive biblical illustrations. Dorothy Verkerk reveals how its colorful and complex illustrations of Genesis and Exodus explained important church teachings. She provides a key to understanding the relationship between the text and pictures. Arguing that the manuscript was created in Italy, Verkerk also solves a mystery that has baffled scholars over the last century.
Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain
Title | Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Katrin Kogman-Appel |
Publisher | Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | 295 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780271027401 |
Emerging in Spain after 1250, Jewish narrative figurative painting became a central feature in a group of illuminated Passover Haggadot in the early decades of the fourteenth century. Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain describes how the Sephardic Haggadot reflect different visualizations of scripture under various conditions and aimed at a variety of audiences. Though the specifics of the creation of these works remain a mystery, this book delves into the cultural struggles that existed during this period in history and shows how those conflicts influenced the work. The culture surrounding the creators of the Sephardic Haggadot was saturated in conflict revolving around acculturation, polemics with Christianity, and struggles within Sephardic Jewry itself. Kogman-Appel presents the Sephardic Haggadot as visual manifestations of a minority struggling for cultural identity both in relation to the dominant culture and within its own realm.
The Old Testament in Byzantium
Title | The Old Testament in Byzantium PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Magdalino |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780884023487 |
The Old Testament in Byzantium contains papers from a Dumbarton Oaks symposium based on an exhibition of early Bible manuscripts titled "In the Beginning: Bibles before the Year 1000." Topics include manifestations of the holy books in Byzantine manuscript illustration, architecture, and government, as well as in Jewish Bible translations.