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From: Thomas Izbicki <[log in to unmask]>
> Reading images and texts: medieval images and texts as forms of
communication, ed. M. Hageman & M. Mostert (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005).
this looks interesting.
Marco Mostert, among other things, has performed the Herculean task of
"reassembling" the massive library of Fleury:
Mostert, Marco.
The library of Fleury : a provisional list of manuscripts / Marco Mostert.
Hilversum : Verloren Publishers, 1989.
315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series: Medieval studies and sources = Middeleeuwse studies en bronnen ; 3
Notes: "Short descriptions of manuscripts which were either written at Fleury
or kept in the monastery's library, manuscripts containing copies of Fleury
charters, and post-medieval manuscripts containing information about the
Fleury library and scriptorium"--P. [43].
being a Brepols publication means that it's just a bit pricey, however.
c
http://www.brepols.net/catalogue/index.jsp?mpk=20295&art=730217
Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy
USML 8
Reading Images and Texts
Medieval Images and Texts as Forms of Communication. Papers from the Third
Utrecht Symposium on Medieval Literacy, Utrecht, 7-9 December 2000
M. Hageman, M. Mostert (eds.)
X+546 p., 141 b/w ill.+19 colour ill., 160 x 240 mm, 2005, Hardback
ISBN 2-503-51437-5, approx. EUR 120.00
Publication date scheduled for December 2005
English Text:
In recent years the relations between images and texts have benefitted from an
increase in scholarly attention. In medieval studies, art historians,
historians, codicologists, philologists and others have applied their methods
to the study of illuminated manuscripts and other works of art. These studies
have shifted from a concern about the contents of the messages contained in
the artefacts (e.g. in iconography) to an interest in the ways in which they
were communicated to their intended audiences. The perception of texts and
images, their reception by contemporaries and by later generations have become
topics in their own right. The analysis of individual manuscripts and works of
art remains the basis for any consideration of their transmission and uses.
Yet the time has come for an evaluation of the results of recent work on
medieval communication. The interactions between non-verbal and verbal forms
of communication, more in particular the relations between visual symbols
other than writing and the recording of speech in writing, are important for
the evaluation of both images and texts.
According to some, medieval images may be ‘read’. According to others, the
perception of images is fundamentally different from that of texts. Do images
have a morphology (colours, lines, planes), a syntax and semantics of their
own? In other words: do both texts and images have a ‘grammar’? Is it
useful to speak of ‘visual literacy’? Can texts be considered as images?
How are texts and images perceived? Do they communicate different kinds of
messages? Can an image’s message be put into words? In which social contexts
does medieval man prefer the visual to the textual? What about the interplay
of texts and images (e.g. in rituals and ceremonies)? Do we observe an
evolution in the perception of images due to the development of a literate
mentality? These are some of the questions discussed in the contributions to
this volume.
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