Imaging the Early Medieval Bible

John Williams and four other mediaeval scholars challenge conventional wisdom on biblical illustration, and find it to be an enterprise guided in its genesis by the dynamics of a new culture. They argue that illustrated Bibles were shaped by ad hoc decisions resulting in a variety of approaches.

About the author

John Williams is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Pittsburgh. His previous books include The Illustrated Beatus: A Corpus of the Illustrations of the Commentary on the Apocalypse (1994) and A Spanish Apocalypse: The Morgan Beatus Manuscript (1991).

Summary

John Williams and four other mediaeval scholars challenge conventional wisdom on biblical illustration, and find it to be an enterprise guided in its genesis by the dynamics of a new culture. They argue that illustrated Bibles were shaped by ad hoc decisions resulting in a variety of approaches.

Product details

• Authors: John Williams
• Assisted by: John Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2001
• EAN: 9780271021690
• ISBN: 978-0-271-02169-0
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 272 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 830 g
• Illustrations: 17 Halftones, color; 103 Halftones, black and white
• Series: Pennsylvania State Series in the History of the Book; Pennsylvania State Series in the History of the Book; Penn State Series in the History of the Book
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design