Early medieval text and image: the wounded and exalted Christ -- The Hiberno-Latin tradition of the Evangelists and the Gospels of Mael Brigte -- Gospel harmony and the names of Christ in insular Gospel books -- Patristic and insular traditions of the Evangelists: exegesis and iconography -- "Know who and what he is": the context and inscriptions of the Durham Gospels Crucifixion image -- The image of orthodoxy, the Mysterium Christi and insular Gospel books -- St. John the Evangelist: between two worlds -- Seeing the crucified Christ: image and meaning in early Irish manuscript art -- The St. Gall Gospels: art and iconography.
Summary:
"This volume brings together nine studies of the Insular Gospel Books. One of them, on the iconography St Gall Gospels (Essay 9), was left completed, but unpublished, on the author's death. It appears here for the first time. The remaining studies, published between 1987 and 2013, examine certain themes and motifs that inform the Gospel Books: their implicit Christology, their harmonisation of the four Gospel accounts, the depiction of Christ crucified, and the portrayal of St John the Evangelist. Two of the Books, the Durham Gospels and the Gospels of Mael Brigte, receive particular attention"-- Provided by publisher.
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