Fair and Varied Forms: Visual Textuality in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts

by Olson,Mary C.

• ISBN13: 9780415942676
• ISBN10: 0415942675
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xv
Preface	xvii
Introduction	xix
Graphic Signification	1	(28)
Perception and Conception	7	(7)
Potency of Images and Words	14	(5)
Modes of Interaction and Substitution: Metaphoric Tropes	19	(4)
Structure in the Graphic Field	23	(4)
Contexts	27	(2)
Inner Space, Outer Space, Graphic Space: Words and Pictures in Anglo-Saxon Culture	29	(36)
The Print-Culture Bias	29	(2)
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Toward Scribes, Illustrators, and the Visual	31	(2)
Anglo-Saxon Readers and Writers	33	(3)
Anglo-Saxon Artisans	36	(1)
Image Veneration	37	(2)
Anglo-Saxon Illustrated Books	39	(1)
Patterns of Identification: Schemata	40	(6)
Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: Metaphoric Tropes	46	(5)
Patterns of Relationship: Spatial Models	51	(4)
Images of Time	55	(3)
Time and Space on the Manuscript Page	58	(7)
The Reading Subject and the Devotional Text: The Harley Psalter	65	(34)
The Manuscript	65	(1)
The Psalms in Anglo-Saxon Life	66	(3)
Purpose of the Harley Psalter	69	(3)
Psalm 33	72	(6)
Psalm 1	78	(3)
Psalm 113	81	(2)
Patterns of Relationship: Cosmic Space	83	(2)
Patterns of Identification: Schematization and the Representation of Women	85	(8)
The Political Nature of the Psalter	93	(2)
Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: More on Metaphor	95	(4)
Narrative Time in Graphic Space: The Illustrated Hexateuch	99	(32)
The Manuscript	100	(1)
Patterns of Identification: Schemata	101	(4)
Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: Metaphoric Tropes	105	(8)
Patterns of Relationship: Movement in Narrative Space	113	(3)
Spatial Time	116	(8)
Allegorical Time	124	(7)
My Monster, Myself: The Marvels of the East	131	(22)
The Manuscript	132	(2)
The Monstrous Races	134	(7)
Patterns of Identification: Schematic Monsters	141	(5)
Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: Dog-Ants and Valkyry-Eyed Beasts	146	(3)
Patterns of Relationship: Occupying the Framed Space	149	(4)
Marginal Portraits and the Fiction of Orality: The Ellesmere Manuscript	153	(24)
Changes in the Making and Reading of Texts Since the Eleventh Century	154	(3)
Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales	157	(1)
Patterns of Relationship: Page Layout and the Reader	158	(4)
Modes of Identification: Schemata and Discursive Detail	162	(7)
Patterns of Substitution and Interaction: Metonymic Focus on Orality	169	(8)
Conclusion	177	(4)
Notes	181	(18)
Bibliography	199	(24)
Author Index	223	(4)
Subject Index	227