ID - 139659601 TI - The Bernward Gospels : art, memory, and the episcopate in medieval Germany AU - Kingsley, Jennifer P. AU - De Gruyter AU - The Pennsylvania State University Press PY - 2014 SN - 9780271064253 0271064250 9780271060798 0271060794 9780271077642 0271077646 PB - University Park, PA The Pennsylvania State University DB - UniCat KW - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ottonian KW - Evangeliaries KW - Christian art and symbolism KW - Illustrations KW - Bernward, KW - Catholic Church KW - Diözesan-Museum Hildesheim. KW - Liturgy KW - Texts KW - Bernward Gospels KW - Bible. KW - Illustrations. KW - Diözesan-Museum Hildesheim KW - Bible KW - Enluminure ottonienne KW - Evangéliaires KW - Art et symbolisme chrétiens UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:139659601 AB - Few works of art better illustrate the splendor of eleventh-century painting than the manuscript often referred to as the “precious gospels” of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim, with its peculiar combination of sophistication and naïveté, its dramatically gesturing figures, and the saturated colors of its densely ornamented surfaces. In The Bernward Gospels, Jennifer Kingsley offers the first interpretive study of the pictorial program of this famed manuscript and considers how the gospel book conditioned contemporary and future viewers to remember the bishop. The codex constructs a complex image of a minister caring for his diocese not only through a life of service but also by means of his exceptional artistic patronage; of a bishop exercising the sacerdotal authority of his office; and of a man fundamentally preoccupied with his own salvation and desire to unite with God through both his sight and touch. Kingsley insightfully demonstrates how this prominent member of the early medieval episcopate presented his role to the saints and to the communities called upon to remember him. ER -