Myth, montage, & visuality in late medieval manuscript culture
Subtitle: Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea
By: Marilynn Desmond & Pamela Sheingorn.
Contributors: Sheingorn, Pamela.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Christine, de Pisan, ca. 1364-ca. 1431.
Other titles: Myth, montage, and visuality in late medieval manuscript culture
Description: "In Myth, Montage, and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture Marilynn Desmond and Pamela Sheingorn analyze the ways in which Othea manuscripts display classical myths for late medieval humanist, chivalric, and Christian readers. Desmond and Sheingorn's study draws extensively on film theory and it notions of spectatorship to explore the ethical implications of viewing illustrated manuscripts for the medieval reader. Focusing particularly on the twin manuscripts of the Othea in the Duke's manuscript and the Queen's manuscript, the authors suggest that premodern and postmodern cultures share a predilection for the cinematic arrangement of knowledge in a montage format in which meaning derives from unexpected juxtapositions."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-327) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The cinematic experience: iconography in the age of mechanical reproduction; title: Constructing masculinities; title: Envisioning desire; title: Engendering violence; title: Visualizing rhetoric.