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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 [log in to unmask] 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). > > ---------------------- > Bella Millett > [log in to unmask] > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%