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- Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages
- Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology
- Additional material
- Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 The New Medieval Book and Its Heritage
- 2 The St. Petersburg Gregory Manuscript and Its Ornament
- 3 Seeing and Reading
- 4 Decorated Words in Late Antiquity
- 5 Illuminated Manuscripts from Luxeuil and Bobbio
- 6 Early Insular Manuscripts in Relation to the Beginnings of Book Illumination
- 7 The Beginnings of Book Illumination and the Ethnic Paradigm in Modern Historiography
- 8 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Manuscript Index
- Subject Index
6 - Early Insular Manuscripts in Relation to the Beginnings of Book Illumination
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 September 2023
- Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages
- Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology
- Additional material
- Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 The New Medieval Book and Its Heritage
- 2 The St. Petersburg Gregory Manuscript and Its Ornament
- 3 Seeing and Reading
- 4 Decorated Words in Late Antiquity
- 5 Illuminated Manuscripts from Luxeuil and Bobbio
- 6 Early Insular Manuscripts in Relation to the Beginnings of Book Illumination
- 7 The Beginnings of Book Illumination and the Ethnic Paradigm in Modern Historiography
- 8 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Manuscript Index
- Subject Index
Summary
The previous chapters describe the development in western Europe of a new artistic genre, the illuminated manuscript, which brought many features of codicology and script together with decoration in a manner that might be called systemic, if not systematic, designed to serve new readers and new manners of reading. Manuscripts of this new type may be distinguished from the unornamented or very simply ornamented text manuscripts of the ancient world, including those few rare examples that inserted illustrations, pictures, into the text. Carl Nordenfalk, in his fundamental article of 1947 to which the title of this chapter pays tribute, called attention to this shift from what he termed “restrained” to what he termed “unrestrained” decoration.
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- Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages , pp. 351 - 421Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023