Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript

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Cambridge University Press, 2001 - 225 pages
A lavishly illustrated book, exploring the interrelationship of text and picture in the only surviving illustrated Anglo-Saxon poetic manuscript. The book focuses on the way in which the drawings both illustrate the text and translate it into a new visual language. It locates the manuscript within the broader cultural contexts in which it was produced and read, and documents the way in which it was transformed by poets, artists, and modern scholars and editors from a collection of biblical poetry to a national historical narrative.
 

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Contents

Structure style and design
19
The pictorial narrative of Genesis
45
Word sign and reader
101
Initial
116
The book and the body
142
The historical narrative
181
suggested subjects of blank picture spaces
203
Index
222
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About the author (2001)

Professor Catherine E. Karkov has taught at Miami University since 1990 and is an affiliate in both the History and Women's Studies departments. She is editor of The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England: Basic Readings (New York, 1999), and co-editor of numerous books on the art and archaeology of early medieval England and Ireland.

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TitleText and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript
Volume 31 of Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England
AuthorCatherine E. Karkov
Editionillustrated
PublisherCambridge University Press, 2001
ISBN0521800692, 9780521800693
Length225 pages
  
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