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The early medieval decorated book illuminates our understanding of the processes of cultural transition from late Antiquity to the Middle Ages and from a trans-continental super-power to western and eastern nation states and revivals of empire - Byzantine and Carolingian. The study of 'graphicacy' (graphic devices, such as inscribed letters and decorative symbols, used to convey information on the text) is emerging as a pivotal tool for understanding how the graphic architecture of the book played a role in the dissemination and reception of thought. The essays in this volume add to the growing scholarship on the medieval schematic and diagramming imagination, exploring some of the many ways in which the spatial arrangement and patterning of text, graphic sign, and figural image generated meaning for medieval viewers, readers, and performers of the written word. Among the individual topics addressed are monograms; the appearance of the cross in early medieval Christian manuscripts; and Anglo-Saxon decorated initials
Books --- Decoration --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- Painting, Medieval --- 091.14:655.26 --- 091.14:003 --- 091.31 --- 091.31 Verluchte handschriften --- Verluchte handschriften --- Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria-:-Typografie. Grafisch ontwerp en lay-out --- Codices--schrift-- Zie ook: {930.272} Paleografie --- 091.14:003 Codices--schrift-- Zie ook: {930.272} Paleografie --- Art graphique --- Livre --- Livre d'artiste --- Livre-objet --- Moyen-âge --- Enluminure --- Calligraphie --- Art celte --- Manuscrit --- Moyen Âge
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In our electronic age, we are accustomed to the use of icons, symbols, graphs, charts, diagrams and visualisations as part of the vocabulary of communication. But this rich ecosystem is far from a modern phenomenon. Early medieval manuscripts demonstrate that their makers and readers achieved very sophisticated levels of 'graphicacy'. When considered from this perspective, many elements familiar to students of manuscript decoration - embellished charactersin scripts, decorated initials, monograms, graphic symbols, assembly marks, diagrammatic structures, frames, symbolic ornaments, musical notation - are revealed to be not minor, incidental marks but crucial elements within the larger sign systems of manuscripts. This interdisciplinary volume discusses the conflation of text and image with a specific focus on the appearance of various graphic devices in manuscript culture.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. --- Painting, Medieval --- analysis. --- archaeology. --- art history. --- art. --- graphic design. --- illuminated manuscripts. --- illustration. --- literature. --- manuscripts. --- medieval culture. --- medieval text. --- museum. --- preservation. --- symbols. --- text. --- Book ornamentation. --- Graphic arts. --- Manuscripts, Medieval.
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