> 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
A study of illuminated initials that attempts to deal with this very
problem, very much along the lines that Bella Millett appears to be
taking for written texts, is T. A. Heslop, "Brief in Words but Heavy
in the Weight of its Mysteries", in Romanesque and Gothic: Essays for
George Zarnecki (Woodbridge, 1987), text vol. 1, pp. 111-118, plates
vol. 2.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|