Reading Images and Texts: Medieval Images and Texts As Forms of Communication: Papers From The Third Utrecht Symposium On ?Medieval Literacy, Utrecht, ... 200 (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy)

Relations between images and texts have benefited from an increase in scholarly attention. In medieval studies, art historians, historians, codicologists, philologists and others have applied their methods to the study of illuminated manuscripts and other works of art. These studies have shifted from a concern about the contents of the messages contained in the artefacts (e.g. in iconography) to an interest in the ways in which they were communicated to their intended audiences. The perception of texts and images, their reception by contemporaries and by later generations have become topics in their own right. According to some, medieval images may be ‘read’. According to others, the perception of images is fundamentally different from that of texts. The analysis of individual manuscripts and works of art remains the basis for any consideration of their transmission and uses. The interactions between non-verbal and verbal forms of communication, more in particular the relations between visual symbols other than writing and the recording of speech in writing, are important for the evaluation of both images and texts. Reading Images And Texts : Some Preliminary Observations Instead Of An Introduction / Marco Mostert -- Corporeal Texts, Spiritual Paintings, And The Mind's Eye / Herbert L. Kessler -- Was Art Really The Book Of The Illiterate? / Lawrence G. Duggan -- Reflections On Was Art Really The 'book Of The Illiterate'? / Lawrence G. Duggan -- Paradise And Pentecost / Claudine A. Chavannes-mazel -- Changing Perceptions Of The Visual In The Middle Ages : Hucbald Of St. Amand's Carolingian Rewriting Of Prudentius / William J. Diebold -- Oral Tradition In Visual Art : The Romanesque Theodoric / Michael Curschmann -- Perceptions Of The History Of The Church In The Early Middle Ages / Rosamond Mckitterick -- Saintly Images : Visions Of Saints In Hagiographical Texts / Wolfert S. Van Egmond -- Pictor Iconiam Litterarum : Rituals As Visual Elements In Early Medieval Ruler Portraits In Word And Image / Mariëlle Hageman -- Paulinus Of Nola And The Image Within The Image / Giselle De Nie -- Meditations On A Christmas Card : Stregies Of Empathy In A Fourteenth-century Liturgical Illumination / Karl F. Morrison -- The Wall Paintings In The Campanile Of The Church Of S. Nicola In Lanciano (c. 1300-1400) : Reading An Unknown Legend Of The Cross In The Abruzzi / Barbara Baert -- Cum Ipso Sunt In Hac Nativitate Congeniti : Dove, Throne And City In The Arch Mosaics Of Sta. Maria Maggiore In Rome (432-440) / Caecilia Davis-weyer -- Les Peintures De La Crypte De Tavant : Etat De La Question Et Perspectives De Recherche / Eric Palazzo -- La Piété Princière Dans L'image Et La Parole : La Plaque De Wiślica (petite Pologne) De La Deuxième Moitié Du Xiie Siècle / Anna Adamska -- The Ambiguity Of Eros : An Image Of The Antique God Of Love In A Christian Encyclopaedia / Esther Mulders -- Ottonian Tituli In Liturgical Books / Henry Mayr-harting -- Texte Et Image Dans Le Manuscrit De Madrid De La Chronique De Skylitzès / Michel Kaplan -- 'reading' Images And Texts In The Bibles Moralisées : Images As Exegesis And The Exegesis Of Images / John Lowden -- Les Images De La Porte Romane Comme Un Livre Ouvert à L'entrée De L'eglise / Xavier Barral I Altet. Edited By Marielle Hageman And Marco Mostert. International Conference Proceedings. Includes Bibliographical References. 17 English, 4 French Contributions. Reading Images and Texts: Some Preliminary Observations Instead of an Introduction, p. 1 Marco Mostert Corporeal Texts, Spiritual Paintings, and the Mind’s Eye, p. 9 Herbert L. Kessler Was Art Really the “Book of the Illiterate”?, p. 63 Lawrence G. Duggan Reflections on “Was Art Really the ‘Book of the Illiterate’?”, p. 109 Lawrence G. Duggan Paradise and Pentecost, p. 121 Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel Changing Perceptions of the Visual in the Middle Ages: Hucbald of St. Amand’s Carolingian Rewriting of Prudentius, p. 161 William J. Diebold Oral Tradition in Visual Art: The Romanesque Theodoric, p. 177 Michael Curschmann Perceptions of the History of the Church in the Early Middle Ages, p. 207 Rosamond McKitterick Saintly Images: Visions of Saints in Hagiographical Texts, p. 221 Wolfert S. van Egmond Pictor Iconiam Litterarum: Rituals as Visual Elements in Early Medieval Ruler Portraits in Word and Image, p. 239 Mariëlle Hageman Paulinus of Nola and the Image Within the Image, p. 261 Giselle de Nie Meditations on a Christmas Card: Strategies of Empathy in a Fourteenth-Century Liturgical Illumination, p. 291 Karl F. Morrison The Wall Paintings in the Campanile of the Church of S. Nicola in Lanciano (c. 1300-1400): Reading an Unknown Legend of the Cross in the Abruzzi, p. 311 Barbara Baert Cum ipso sunt in hac nativitate congeniti: Dove, Throne and City in the Arch Mosaics of Sta. Maria Maggiore in Rome (432-440), p. 367 Caecilia Davis-Weyer Les Peintures de la Crypte de Tavant: Etat de la Question et Perspectives de Recherche, p. 395 Eric Palazzo La Piété Princière dans l’Image et dans la Parole: Le Pavement Orné de Wiślica (Petite Pologne) de la Deuxième Moitié du xiie Siècle, p. 425 Anna Adamska The Ambiguity of Eros: An Image of the Antique God of Love in a Christian Encyclopaedia, p. 445 Esther Mulders Ottonian Tituli in Liturgical Books, p. 457 Henry Mayr-Harting Texte et Image dans le Manuscrit de Madrid de la Chronique de Skylitzès, p. 477 Michel Kaplan ‘Reading’ Images and Texts in the Bibles moralisées: Images as Exegesis and the Exegesis of Images, p. 495 John Lowden Les Images de la Porte Romane comme un Livre Ouvert à l’Entrée de l’Église, p. 527 Xavier Barral i Altet Plates, p. 545 How did people know what they knew, and learn what they learned? As Derek Pearsall's introduction makes clear this is the primary focus of this collection of essays published in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the foundation of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. The learning materials included range from grammar books to mystery plays, and from court records to monastic chronicles, as well as liturgical and devotional texts. But the essays are not only concerned with texts alone, but with the broader and often fluid social environments in which learning took place. Many of the papers therefore question the validity of some distinctions habitually used in the discussion of medieval culture, such as the opposition between orality and literacy, between Latin and the vernacular or between secular and religious.