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Author:
Olson, Mary C., 1941- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002027568
Title:
Fair and varied forms : visual textuality in medieval illuminated manuscripts / Mary C. Olson.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2003
Description:
xxv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Criticism, Textual.
English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Illustrations.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--England.
Art and literature--England--History--To 1500.
Books and reading--England--History--To 1500.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, English.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400--Manuscripts.
Scriptoria--England--History--To 1500.
Manuscripts, Medieval--England.
Manuscripts, English (Middle)
Manuscripts, English (Old)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-221) and indexes.
Contents:
Graphic signification -- Inner space, outer space, graphic space : words and pictures in Anglo-Saxon culture -- The reading subject and the devotional text : the Harley psalter -- Narrative time in graphic space : the illustrated hexateuch -- My monster, myself : the marvels of the east -- Marginal portraits and the fiction of orality : the Ellesmere manuscript.
Series:
Studies in medieval history and culture ; v. 15
ISBN:
9780415942676
0415942675
OCLC:
(OCoLC)49698884
LCCN:
2002006359
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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