Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages
Series: Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology; 18;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 5 October 2023
- ISBN 9781009193863
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages530 pages
- Size 253x182x32 mm
- Weight 1330 g
- Language English 543
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Short description:
This richly illustrated study shows how modern systems of textual presentation grew from techniques developed in the medieval period.
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This richly illustrated study addresses the essential first steps in the development of the new phenomenon of the illuminated book, which innovatively introduced colourful large letters and ornamental frames as guides for the reader's access to the text. Tracing their surprising origins within late Roman reading practices, Lawrence Nees shows how these decorative features stand as ancestors to features of printed and electronic books we take for granted today, including font choice, word spacing, punctuation and sentence capitalisation. Two hundred photographs, nearly all in colour, illustrate and document the decisive change in design from ancient to medieval books. Featuring an extended discussion of the importance of race and ethnicity in twentieth-century historiography, this book argues that the first steps in the development of this new style of book were taken on the European continent within classical practices of reading and writing, and not as, usually presented, among the non-Roman 'barbarians'.
'Recommended.' J. Oliver, CHOICE
Table of Contents:
1. The new medieval book and its heritage; 2. The St Petersburg Gregory Manuscript and its ornament; 3. Seeing and reading: the grammatical and rhetorical structure of text and image; 4. Decorated words in Late Antiquity: roots of illumination; 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: the transformation of the book.
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