Performing the Gospels in Byzantium : sight, sound, and space in the divine liturgy

"Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focusing on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century, the book articulates how the process of textual recitation produced marginalia and miniatures that reflected and subverted the manner in which the Gospel was read and simultaneously imagined by readers and listeners alike. This unique approach to manuscript illumination points to images that slowly unfolded in the mind of its listeners as they imagined the text being recited, as meaning carefully changed and built as the text proceeded. By examining this process within specific acoustic architectural spaces and the sonic conditions of medieval chant, the volume brings together the concerns of sound studies, liturgical studies, and art history to demonstrate how images, texts, and recitations played with the environment of the Middle Byzantine church"-- Provided by publisher 01.0_pp_i_ii_Performing_the_Gospels_in_Byzantium 1 02.0_pp_iii_iii_Performing_the_Gospels_in_Byzantium -1 03.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page -1 04.0_pp_v_v_Contents 5 05.0_pp_vi_xvii_List_of_Illustrations 6 06.0_pp_xviii_xxiv_Acknowledgments 18 07.0_pp_1_28_Introduction 25 08.0_pp_29_166_The_Lectionary 54 08.1_pp_30_67_Beginnings_and_Initials 55 08.2_pp_68_117_Miniatures_and_Marginalia 93 08.3_pp_118_166_Faltering_Images 143 09.0_pp_167_283_The_Liturgy 192 09.1_pp_168_191_The_Reading_of_the_Lectionary 193 09.2_pp_192_233_The_Sound_of_the_Lectionary 217 09.3_pp_234_283_Polyvalent_Images 259 10.0_pp_284_286_Epilogue 309 11.0_pp_287_318_Bibliography 312 12.0_pp_319_330_Index 344 Beginnings and Initials: Text, Image, and Sound -- Miniatures and Marginalia: A Visual Grammar and Syntax -- Faltering Images: Iconography between Reading, Error, and Confusion -- The Reading of the Lectionary: Recitation, Inspiration, and Embodiment -- The Sound of the Lectionary: Chant, Architecture, and Salvation -- Polyvalent Images: Iconography between Image, Space, and Sound Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focuses on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century and combines insights and approaches from sound studies, liturgical studies, and art history