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Originally published in 1991, Medieval Texts and Images is a
collection of essays which critically examines medieval
manuscripts. The book contains a wide range of contributions, the
first examines the relationship of the Legende Doree and its
relationship to the aristocratic patrons who commissioned these
manuscripts; the second scrutinises the tradition of French
illumination as it was developed in Paris in the so-called Bedford
Master's workshop in the 1420s. The text examines liturgical texts
of the medieval period and written and liturgical contributions to
Renaissance art. Other contributions include an investigation into
the written scroll within the painted composition, comparing
various compositional and thematic functions in the depiction of a
Crucifixion and a study of Christian vernacular poetry. This
collection provides a comprehensive overview of the use of text and
image in medieval literature.
This volume in Oxford Medieval Text contains Eadmer's Lives of
Saints Oda, Dunstan, and Oswald, as well as the Miracles of Dunstan
and Oswald. These three English saints, together with AEthelwold of
Winchester, were key figures in the Benedictine revival of the
tenth century, which saw a flowering of Anglo-Saxon religious,
artistic, and literary culture. Eadmer of Canterbury
(c.1060-c.1130), the secretary, confidant, and biographer of Saint
Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109), was one of the most
important historians and biographers in the period after the Norman
Conquest. His works, written in Latin, look back constantly to the
Anglo-Saxon past, while at the same time they accurately reflect
the present-day realities of the wider European society into which
England had been forcibly integrated. Manuscripts of his Lives of
the Saints circulated widely in both in England and France, but
apart from his Life of Anselm they have been little studied, and
have remained largely untranslated. The works newly edited and
translated in this edition provide many insights into the wider
political history of the pre- and post-Conquest periods, as well as
important evidence for the cults of the saints in Canterbury and
Worcester.
Originally published in 1991, Medieval Texts and Images is a
collection of essays which critically examines medieval
manuscripts. The book contains a wide range of contributions, the
first examines the relationship of the Legende Doree and its
relationship to the aristocratic patrons who commissioned these
manuscripts; the second scrutinises the tradition of French
illumination as it was developed in Paris in the so-called Bedford
Master's workshop in the 1420s. The text examines liturgical texts
of the medieval period and written and liturgical contributions to
Renaissance art. Other contributions include an investigation into
the written scroll within the painted composition, comparing
various compositional and thematic functions in the depiction of a
Crucifixion and a study of Christian vernacular poetry. This
collection provides a comprehensive overview of the use of text and
image in medieval literature.
A Prayer Book owned by the Rothschilds, an Italian bronze casket by
Antico, a lavishly illustrated Carnival chronicle from
sixteenth-century Germany, an altarpiece by Pieter Brueghel the
Younger - much of the artwork in this book, held by Australian
collections, is essentially unknown beyond the continent. The
authors of these essays showcase these extraordinary objects to
their full potential, revealing a wide range of contemporary art
and historical research. This collection of essays will surprise
even specialists.
Of the four major surviving manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon poetry, MS.
Junius 11 is the only one which is illustrated. This tenth-century
manuscript contains four poems based on the Old and New Testaments:
Genesis A and B, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan. It was given
by Francis Junius in 1677 to the Bodleian Library, University of
Oxford. For the first time, the entire manuscript is available here
in an innovative, highly accessible format. The CD contains images
of each opening and each page of the manuscript, visible at high
magnification, and a 'live' transcription and translation of the
poems with hyperlinks, allowing powerful global searches across the
entire text. A full translation of the entire text is also linked
to the transcription and the relevant manuscript page. The CD also
includes high resolution images of all the drawings and initials in
the manuscript, and exterior photographs of its medieval binding.
The powerful and realistic magnifier makes it possible to zoom in
on the manuscript pages with varying degrees of magnification. The
meaning and importance of the drawings are discussed in a detailed
introduction and commentary, supplemented by a full bibliography.
This exciting, ground-breaking CD will appeal to all scholars and
students of Anglo-Saxon literature, art, history, and culture, as
well as to bibliophiles and collectors.
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