Description
This book explores the complex interrelationship between texts and drawings in the late tenth or early eleventh-century Junius II manuscript, the only surviving illustrated Anglo-Saxon poetic manuscript. The book, which contains a plate section of sixty-one illustrations, focuses on the way in which the drawings both illustrate the text and translate it into a new visual language. Poems and illustrations work to create a carefully crafted and unified manuscript, but both also use formulaic language, iconography and compositions to construct a web of intertextual and intervisual references that open the poems to readings far more diverse than those of the biblical books on which they are based. Together poems and drawings create a new and unique version of biblical history, and suggest ways in which biblical history relates to Anglo-Saxon history and the manuscript's Anglo-Saxon audience - a process which has been extended by the manuscript's many editors to include contemporary history and the contemporary reader.
Studies the interrelationship of text and picture in the only surviving illustrated Anglo-Saxon poetic manuscript.
About the Author
Professor Catherine E. Karkov has taught at Miami University since 1990 and is an affiliate in both the History and Women's Studies departments. She is editor of The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England: Basic Readings (New York, 1999), and co-editor of numerous books on the art and archaeology of early medieval England and Ireland.
Reviews
"...a fine start toward an important goal." SPECULUM
"Karkov...proposes a new and more sophisticated understanding of the relationship of text an image..In doing so she raises the level of discourse both for Junius II and for late Anglo-Saxon illumination in general." CAA Reviews
"A solid and thorough analysis of one of the most striking pieces of Anglo-Saxon codicological art that has come down to us. It will be valuable to everone working on the relation of text and image in Anglo-Saxon England." Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik
"... the results are definitely worth considering." Albion
Book Information
ISBN 9780521800693
Author Catherine E. Karkov
Format Hardback
Page Count 286
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 555g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 158mm * 21mm
Studies the interrelationship of text and picture in the only surviving illustrated Anglo-Saxon poetic manuscript.
About the Author
Professor Catherine E. Karkov has taught at Miami University since 1990 and is an affiliate in both the History and Women's Studies departments. She is editor of The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England: Basic Readings (New York, 1999), and co-editor of numerous books on the art and archaeology of early medieval England and Ireland.
Reviews
"...a fine start toward an important goal." SPECULUM
"Karkov...proposes a new and more sophisticated understanding of the relationship of text an image..In doing so she raises the level of discourse both for Junius II and for late Anglo-Saxon illumination in general." CAA Reviews
"A solid and thorough analysis of one of the most striking pieces of Anglo-Saxon codicological art that has come down to us. It will be valuable to everone working on the relation of text and image in Anglo-Saxon England." Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik
"... the results are definitely worth considering." Albion
Book Information
ISBN 9780521800693
Author Catherine E. Karkov
Format Hardback
Page Count 286
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 555g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 158mm * 21mm
