Fair and varied forms : visual textuality in medieval illuminated manuscripts / Mary C. Olson.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Olson, Mary C., 1941-

Series:

• Studies in medieval history and culture ; v. 15.
• Studies in medieval history and culture ; v. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
• English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Criticism, Textual.
• English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Illustrations.
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--England.
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
• Scriptoria.
• History.
• Manuscripts.
• Art and literature.
• English literature.
• English literature--Old English.
• Criticism, Textual.
• England.
• Art and literature--England--History--To 1500.
• Books and reading--England--History--To 1500.
• Books and reading.
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon.
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, English.
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Manuscripts.
• Scriptoria--England--History--To 1500.
• Manuscripts, Medieval--England.
• Manuscripts, Medieval.
• Manuscripts, English (Middle).
• Manuscripts, English (Old).

Physical Description:

xxv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Contents:

• Graphic signification
• Inner space, outer space, graphic space : words and pictures in Anglo-Saxon culture
• The reading subject and the devotional text : the Harley psalter
• Narrative time in graphic space : the illustrated hexateuch
• My monster, myself : the marvels of the East
• Marginal portraits and the fiction of orality : the Ellesmere manuscript.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-221) and indexes.

ISBN:

0415942675

OCLC:

49698884