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The Ashburnham Pentateuch and its Contexts - The Trinity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Latin, Hardcover)
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The Ashburnham Pentateuch and its Contexts - The Trinity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Latin, Hardcover)
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
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A fresh interpretation of an enigmatic illumination and its
contexts. The Ashburnham Pentateuch is an early medieval manuscript
of uncertain provenance, which has puzzled and intrigued scholars
since the nineteenth century. Its first image, which depicts the
Genesis creation narrative, is itself a site of mystery;
originally, it presented the Trinity as three men in various
vignettes, but in the early ninth century, by which time the
manuscript had come to the monastery at Tours, most of the figures
were obscured by paint, leaving behind a single creator. In this
sense, the manuscript serves as a kind of hinge between the late
antique and early medieval periods. Why was the Ashburnham
Pentateuch's anthropomorphic image of the Trinity acceptable in the
sixth century, but not in the ninth? This study examines the
theological, political, and iconographic contexts of the production
and later modification of the Ashburnham Pentateuch's creation
image. The discussion focuses on materiality, the oft-contested
relationship between image and word, and iconoclastic acts as
"embodied responses". Ultimately, this book argues that the
Carolingian-era reception and modification of the creation image is
consistent with contemporaneous iconography, a concern for
maintaining the absolute unity of the Trinity, as well as
Carolingian image theory following the Byzantine iconoclastic
controversy. Tracing the changes in Trinitarian theology and
theories of the image offers us a better understanding of the
mutual influences between art, theology, and politics during Late
Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
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