Introduction: The Role of Graphic Devices in Understanding the
Early Decorated Book
"In the Image and Likeness of God": The Dedication Monogram in the
Calendar of 354 and Early Medieval Monogrammatic Initials - Ildar
Garipzanov
'Character' and the Power of the Letter - David Ganz
Tangled Voices: Writing, Drawing and the Anglo-Saxon Decorated
Initial - Catherine E. Karkov
Graphic Visualization in Liturgical Manuscripts in the Early Middle
Ages: The Initial "O" in the Sacramentary of Gellone - Eric
Palazzo
Graphic Quire Marks and Qur'anic Verse Markers in Frankish and
Islamic manuscripts from the Seventh and Eighth Centuries -
Lawrence Nees
The Graphic Cross as Salvific Mark and Organizing Principle:
Making, Marking, Shaping - Cynthia Hahn
The Visual Rhetoric of Insular Decorated Incipit Openings -
Michelle Brown
The Relationship between Letter and Frame in Insular and
Carolingian Manuscripts - Tina Bawden
Patterns of Meaning in Insular Manuscripts: folio 183r in the Book
of Kells - Benjamin C. Tilghman
Graphic and Figural Representation in Touronian Gospel Illumination
- Beatrice Kitzinger
Meaning from the Margins: Graphic Signs, Frames and Initials in a
ninth-century Byzantine Manuscript - Leslie Brubaker
An Exercise in Extravagance and Abundance: Some Thoughts on the
Marginalia Decorata in the Codex Parasinus graecus 216 - Kallirroe
Linardou
The Cross on the Book: Diagram, Ornament, Materiality - David
Ganz
Graphic Glosses and Argumentative Ornament - Herbert Kessler
Bibliography
CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Leeds.
Provides a much-needed modern exploration of the potential function
and meaning behind decoration within early medieval
manuscripts....it will surely be of great use to researchers in a
wide range of disciplines, from paleography to history and art
history.
*EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE*
The . . . fourteen studies, all excellent, address a range of
innovations to which nascent book cultures, from the fourth century
through the end of the first millennium, gave rise.
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