The Art of Words: Bede and Theodulf
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The Art of Words: Bede and Theodulf

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
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The Art of Words: Bede and Theodulf

About this book

Medieval art is wordy; inscriptions and poems, commentaries and chronicles accompany and adorn it. The Art of Words presents a series of detective stories by a renowned explorer of medieval philological evidence who here examines the thought and objects of the Venerable Bede and Theodulf of Orleans. What physical objects did Bede have in mind, for example, when writing about the paintings of his monastic churches? How did he conceive of the division of biblical books into chapters? Why was the famous Libri Carolini made for Charlemagne never published? Indeed what did it mean in the Middle Ages to publish something? Pursuing the story of Bede's calendar shows how Valentine's Day began with a reference to birds. To unravel the meaning of the image of Ezra in the Codex Amiatinus the author then demonstrates the importance of knowing the books that Bede knew and wrote. The final topic is the celebrated Apse mosaic of Germigny-des-Prés, how it was saved from destruction and how Theodulf's words explain what we see. Words matter and, in these studies Paul Meyvaert constantly delights the reader with careful excavations of that place in medieval art and thought where images and words connect and collide.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780754659778
eBook ISBN
9781000951134
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Half Title Page
  4. Frontmatter
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Table of Contents
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. I Bede and the church paintings at Wearmouth-Jarrow
  12. II Bede’s capitula lectionum for the Old and New Testaments
  13. III “In the footsteps of the fathers”: the date of Bede’s Thirty Questions on the Book of Kings to Nothelm
  14. IV Discovering the calendar (annalis libellus) attached to Bede’s own copy of De temporum ratione
  15. V Bede, Cassiodorus, and the Codex Amiatinus
  16. VI The date of Bede’s In Ezram and his image of Ezra in the Codex Amiatinus
  17. VII Dissension in Bede’s community shown by a quire of Codex Amiatinus
  18. VIII The meaning of Theodulf’s apse mosaic at Germigny-des-PrĂ©s (with Ann Freeman)
  19. IX Maximilien Théodore Chrétin and the apse mosaic at Germigny-des-Prés
  20. X Théodulfe et BÚde au sujet des blessures du Christ (with A. Davril)
  21. XI Medieval notions of publication: the “unpublished” Opus Caroli regis contra synodum and the Council of Frankfort (794)
  22. Index
  23. Index of Manuscripts