I'm way out of my field here, but couldn't the same non-linear
associations be made for the illuminations that appear in the MSS, a sort
of iconographic interpretation of the text made by the illuminator which
is meant to expand the consciousness of the reader, a sort of visual
cue/prompt which comments on the text in other ways?
Clint
Clinton Atchley
University of Washington
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On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Bella Millett wrote:
> Karen Jolly wrote:
> "What interests me is what this practice says about literacy, reading
> habits, and the communities who participated in the production or use of
> these texts. Perhaps readers of such texts saw words not in a linear
> fashion, as a chain of logic, but as a series of prompts connecting
> readers to invisible texts or to other parts of the text. Like a web
> page."
> I'm sure this is true, which is one reason why the big Latin
> databases are such a valuable research aid; the author of _Ancrene
> Wisse_, the C13 ME rule for anchoresses I'm editing, sometimes comes
> up with 'portmanteau' Latin quotations, where two Scriptural texts
> sharing the same keyword are merged, and at one point applies the
> standard exegesis of one 'widows and orphans' Scriptural quotation to
> another whose exegetical tradition is quite different (concordance
> rather than hypertext thinking perhaps, but the same kind of
> non-linear association).
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