medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear Christopher, dear Paula
There is not enough time to enter discussion now. But firstly, I express my personal gratitude to Christopher for the many
interesting links of the last weeks and months, concerning medieval literature and religion and the Chartraine region,
and secondly, I like to draw your and the list members' attention to a wonderful piece of "old English literature", which is now
online in a complete, bilingual version (of about 800 pages comments and transcriptions):
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~lib399/index.shtml
The Albani psalter includes in it's initials a lot of vivid gestures, just like this *humorous* one (about mental faculties against
God):
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~lib399/english/commentary/page316.shtml
Greetings
Werner Robl
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From: "Christopher Crockett" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [M-R] [[M-R] The mind of God...]
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
"Warrington, P.F.T." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I'm looking at the representation of 'mental faculties' in Old English
literature
probably not at all what you're looking for, and not really concerned with
"Old English Literature", but your question reminded me of this recent
publication, the fruit of several decades of work by an eminent art historian,
now no longer with us, alas :
C.R. Dodwell, _Anglo-Saxon gestures and the Roman stage_Cambridge University
Press, 2000. xvii, 171 p. : ill.
it seems that "gesture" was a very important element in Anglo-Saxon painting
and many of these gestures related to "mental faculties", i believe.
the chapter on "PUZZLEMENT OR PERPLEXITY"
http://www.ariadne.org/centrechartraine/royalportal/comp/dodwell-as/XXXa-b.jpg
might be of use to you :
http://www.ariadne.org/centrechartraine/royalportal/comp/dodwell-as/dodwell102-7.rtf
here's a couple of gestures from the opening leaves of "The Old English
Hexateuch" :
http://www.ariadne.org/centrechartraine/royalportal/comp/hexateuch/hex2v.jpg
http://www.ariadne.org/centrechartraine/royalportal/comp/hexateuch/hex6v.jpg
being "literary" this manuscript would be of interest in any case ; my .jpgs
are taken from the complete facsimile edition :
C.R. Dodwell, Peter Clemoes, eds. _The Old English Hexateuch (B.M. Cotton
Claudius B.IV)_, Copenhagen, 1973.
the scene illustrating the creation of Adam (which i don't have a copy of)
doesn't seem to have the "the mind of God" motif which is to be seen, for
example, in one of the high archivolts of the North Porch of Chartres
cathedral (mid-13th c.).
best from here,
christopher
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