After the Carolingians

Re-defining Manuscript Illumination in the 10th and 11th Centuries

Beatrice Kitzinger, Joshua O'Driscoll

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9783110578393
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literatura
• Subtopic: Historia y teoría de la crítica literaria

A volume that introduces new sources and offers fresh perspectives on a key era of transition, this book is of value to art historians and historians alike. From the dissolution of the Carolingian empire to the onset of the so-called 12th-century Renaissance, the transformative 10th–11th centuries witnessed the production of a significant number of illuminated manuscripts from present-day France, Belgium, Spain, and Italy, alongside the better-known works from Anglo-Saxon England and the Holy Roman Empire. While the hybrid styles evident in book painting reflect the movement and re-organization of people and codices, many of the manuscripts also display a highly creative engagement with the art of the past. Likewise, their handling of subject matter—whether common or new for book illumination—attests to vibrant artistic energy and innovation. On the basis of rarely studied scientific, religious, and literary manuscripts, the contributions in this volume address a range of issues, including the engagement of 10th–11th century bookmakers with their Carolingian and Antique legacies, the interwoven geographies of book production, and matters of modern politics and historiography that have shaped the study of this complex period.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• The Master of the Bern Psychomachia: Reconstructing an Artistic Personality in the Late Ninth Century
• Creative Borrowing in a Leiden Terence (UB, MS VLQ 38)
• Imaging and Imagining Solidity
• Imaging Time, Computation and Astronomy: A Computus Collection from Micy-Saint-Mesmin (Vatican, BAV, MS Reg. lat. 1263) and Early Eleventh-Century Illumination in the Loire Region
• Creativity at the End(s) of an Empire: Biblical Compilation and Illustration at the Monastery of Ripoll
• Working and Reworking the Book: The Saint-Vaast Gospels and Its Manuscript Context
• Shaping Tradition: The Use of the Carolingian Past in a Tenth-Century Manuscript at the Morgan Library (PML, MS M.319)
• From Gold Script to sermo rusticus: Book Illumination in Northern Italy at the Turn of the Millennium, the Case of Milan and Ivrea
• With Pen and Knife: Illuminating Blindness in a Forgotten Sacramentary
• Ovid at the Crossroads: Illustrations of the Metamorphoses in Apulia Before 1071
• Avianus and the Apocalypse in Paris, BnF, Ms. n.a.l. 1132
• Embodied Time, Narrative, and Performance in the Prüm Troper
• In Between, Center, and Periphery: The Art of Illumination on the Early Medieval Iberian Peninsula
• Apollonius pictus Reevaluated: Kurt Weitzmann’s Legacy and the Multilayered Historicity of Medieval Manuscripts
• Select Bibliography
• Index of Manuscripts
• Index of Places
• Index of Names