El dragón de lo imaginado a lo real
Subtitle: su simbolismo y operatividad visual en la miniatura cristiana de la Plena Edad Media hispánica
By: Nadia Mariana Consiglieri
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Mino y Dávila
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Buenos Aires
Language: spa
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9788418095528
Subjects: Dragons in art; Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts; Spanish Manuscripts; John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Description: Maw spewing fire, harsh scales, menacing eyes, crests and tails. That is the image that comes to mind when we think of the dragon. This imaginary animal, the result of a huge accumulation of written and iconographic sources developed over time, was of constant interest in the Middle Ages. Its literate culture revisited its figure with great assiduity through its allegorical, symbolic, pedagogical and persuasive facets in lectio and liturgy. This book proposes to investigate the various symbolic and practical functions of the dragon within illuminated codices produced in Hispano-Christian monasteries between the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth. The Romanesque dragontine image managed to firmly establish itself as a demonic animalistic prototype in the medieval visual culture of that time. Likewise, its diffusion in the Iberian Peninsula was accompanied by the impact of Style 1200, by the circulation of foreign bestiaries and by a more empirical view of nature. The dragon designs began to have a greater effectiveness and pictorial impact and marked a considerable imprint in Hispanic territory. Both in central miniatures as in capital letters and in marginalia, the image of the dragon began to multiply in the Hispanic manuscripts of those centuries and operated under different strategies for its reading. Their sleek and ductile bodies managed to adapt to the different graphic formats of the folios, while their monstrous faces forged an important quota of visual appeal. Thus, miniaturists frequented more and more versatile graphic repertoires of dragons in direct relation to the different uses and functions that these could awaken in the eyes of the intrepid monks who read these manuscripts daily.
Notes: Includes discussion of the Manchester Beatus (JRL, Latin MS 8, see index p.247).

Includes bibliographical references.

In Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Palabras preliminares / de José Emilio Burucúa; title: Prefacio / Ofelia Manzi; title: Introducción; title: Capítulo I. Los scriptoria en el contexto histórico-artístico hispánico de los siglos XII-XIII; title: 1. Situación político-religiosa general; title: 2. Panorama general de los scriptoria hispánicos entre el siglo XII e inicios del siglo XIII; title: 3. El surgimiento del Estilo 1200 en el contexto de esplendor del románico hispánico; title: Capítulo II. La figura del dragón: definición y modalidades representativas; title: 1. Entre el mundo de las serpientes: la tradición iconográfica del dragón medieval; 1.1. La tradición dragontina en la Antigüedad; title: 1.2. La tradición dragontina medieval; title: 2. Hibridez y bestialidad como fundamentos del perfil dragontino; title: Capítulo III. El dragón en los manuscritos de la Plena Edad Media hispánica; title: 1. Panorama general de las tipologías codicológicas que incluyen al dragón y sus características de representación; title: 1.1. El dragón en las miniaturas principales; title: 1.2. El dragón en las imágenes secundarias y paratextuales; title: 1.2.1. El dragón en las letras capitales y motivos ornamentales; title: 1.2.2. El dragón en indicadores de lectura marginales; 2. Algunos ejemplos del dragón sobre otros soportes bidimensionales en la Plena Edad Media hispánica; title: Conclusiones; title: Corpus general de manuscritos tratados; title: Corpus principal de manuscritos hispánicos; title: Corpus secundario de manuscritos foráneos.