medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: jbugslag <[log in to unmask]>
>> [p. 713, #3000]
>> Iuvenes quoque et pueros quos...sapidos invenit, per diversa scolarum
studia cirucumquaque dispertivit; quorum certe postea servimine variam
ac multiplicem suae ecclesiae utilitatem **in lectione scriptura et
pictura** ac plurali honestiori clericalis officii disciplina conquisivit.
>> i take this to mean that the saintly bishop taught the young
(soon-to-be) clerics under his care (perhaps even including the author
of the Vita) to "read text [/writings, or perhaps, Scripture] and
pictures [/images]..."
> Off the top of my head, this is something one associates more with Hugh of
St Victor and the other Victorines of the 12th century.
how so?
in what sense (or by what translation/interpretation) is this passage (or the
practice which it describes) "Victorine"?
>It seems a bit perplexing to come across such an idea so much earlier than
that. At that date, it is more usual to find references to images as the
"books of the illiterate" in relation to Pope Gregory the Great's
pronouncements, but that is clearly not what is involved here.
?
not "picturae for the illiterate" clearly, but why do you think that it can't
be a question of "picturae for the literate"?
seems to me that this idea of images being mainly --or even significantly--
targeted at the illiterate is a bit of an overblown (if not absurd) notion,
given the astonishing number of, say, extensive fresco iconograhic cycles
(even judging by the pitiful few which have survived), many (most, in this
period) in places which were, essentially, inaccessible to the unlettered.
to say nothing of the extensive programs in *manuscripts* (presumably what the
Vita passage above refers to??), most all of which were clearly intended for a
literate audience (i'm willing to exclude, for the sake of argument, quite
rare artefacts like "Imperial" gospel books).
c
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