The Early Medieval Bible
Its Production, Decoration and Use
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Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:18th Jan '09
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Eleven linked studies interpreting the evidence of Bible manuscripts from antiquity to the thirteenth century.
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.The significance of the Bible in the life, thought and culture of the early Middle Ages can hardly be overstated. Here eleven linked studies, embracing palaeography, history, art history, theology and textual scholarship, examine and interpret the evidence of Bible manuscripts (including gospel books and Psalters) in their cultural context from late antiquity to the thirteenth century. Subjects include the earliest Bible manuscripts, the Gospels in a missionary context, the scriptorium of Tours, the development of the early glossed Psalter, the Old Testament in tenth- and eleventh-century England, the Italian Giant Bibles, the origins of the Paris Bible, the illustration of the early Gothic Psalter and the planning and production of the Hamburg Bible. Together these essays provide a broad-ranging, authoritative treatment of themes which are of central importance for the history and culture of the times.
ISBN: 9780521100014
Dimensions: 244mm x 170mm x 14mm
Weight: 420g
264 pages