Early Medieval Bible - Its Production, Decoration and Use

Klappentext Eleven linked studies interpreting the evidence of Bible manuscripts from antiquity to the thirteenth century. Zusammenfassung Eleven linked studies interpret the evidence of Bible manuscripts in their cultural context from late antiquity to the thirteenth century. Together these essays provide an authoritative treatment of themes of central importance for the history and culture of the early Middle Ages. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The oldest manuscripts of the Latin Bible Patrick McGurk; 2. The Royal 1. B. vii Gospels and English book production in the seventh and eighth centuries Richard Gameson; 3. Mass production of Early Medieval manuscripts: the Carolingian Bibles from Tours David Ganz; 4. Carolingian Bible production: the Tours anomaly Rosamond McKitterick; 5. Carolingian Glossed Psalters Margaret Gibson; 6. The Old Testament in late Anglo-Saxon England: preliminary observations on the textual evidence Richard Marsden; 7. The Italian Giant Bibles: aspects of their Touronian ancestry and early history Larry M. Ayers; 8. French Bibles c. 1200-30: a new look at the origins of the Paris Bible Laura Light; 9. The textual basis for visual errors in French Gothic Psalter illustration Elizabeth A. Petersen; 10. The Bible as subject and object of illustration: the making of a Medieval manuscript, Hamburg 1255 Erik Peterson; 11. The theology of the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Bible Lesley Smith.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Richard Gameson, Richard (University of Kent Gameson
• Collaboration: Richard Gameson (Editeur), Richard (University of Kent Gameson (Editeur), Gameson Richard (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 18.01.2009
• EAN: 9780521100014
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10001-4
• Pages: 264
• Thèmes: Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology; Cambridge Studies in Palaeogra
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Religion: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Christianisme