Fair and varied forms
Subtitle: visual textuality in medieval illuminated manuscripts
By: Mary C. Olson.
Series: Studies in medieval history and culture ;; v. 15
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Manuscripts.; English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Criticism, Textual.; English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Illustrations.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- England.; Art and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Books and reading -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, English.; Scriptoria -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Manuscripts, Medieval -- England.; Manuscripts, English (Middle); Manuscripts, English (Old)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-221) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Graphic signification :; title: Inner space, outer space, graphic space : words and pictures in Anglo-Saxon culture; title: The reading subject and the devotional text : the Harley psalter; title: Narrative time in graphic space : the illustrated hexateuch; title: My monster, myself : the marvels of the east; title: Marginal portraits and the fiction of orality : the Ellesmere manuscript.