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09, Typological Images And Thought, Courtney Rhoades Jan 2018

09, Typological Images And Thought, Courtney Rhoades

Kerver Book of Hours: 2018 Senior Capstone

Portland State University’s Kerver Book of Hours contains typological images in sets of three. Typological images are more commonly displayed in sets of two consisting of a type and an antitype. Typological thought uses images from the Hebrew Bible placed alongside the images of the New Testament in order to act as a prophecy.By viewing the Hebrew Bible as a prophecy for the New Testament, the church is able to justify the existence of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew Bible must be preserved in order for it to be interpreted, and the Book of Hours was used as a tool …


07, Kerver's Colophon, Quinn Haslett Jan 2018

07, Kerver's Colophon, Quinn Haslett

Kerver Book of Hours: 2018 Senior Capstone

First established at the “the sign of the Unicorn,” Thielman Kerver’s Parisian shop was surrounded by other members of the printing community. The shared use of engravers often led printers to duplicate or share the images they used. The particular marks they developed to distinguish their work took shape as early trademarks that separated one printer’s work from another. This essay examines the symbolism and visual elements incorporated into the unique colophon that identified Kerver's work.


10, Danse Macabre, Stefano Paparo Jan 2018

10, Danse Macabre, Stefano Paparo

Kerver Book of Hours: 2018 Senior Capstone

The Danse Macabre (the Dance of Death) is a 15th-century conceit, both pictorial and textual, of the humbling power of death. In the years following the plagues of late 14th-century Europe, it seems almost inevitable that the Danse Macabre would become a popular theme in medieval art. The Danse Macabre in Thielman Kerver’s printed Book of Hours (1507) is depicted in a series of marginal illustrations in which Death, pictured as a decomposing corpse or transi, accompanies 66 “dancers” to the afterlife. Medieval artists and their patrons could subvert attitudes toward certain figures of power by including their images in …


18, Martyrdom Of St. John The Evangelist, David Powers Jan 2018

18, Martyrdom Of St. John The Evangelist, David Powers

Kerver Book of Hours: 2018 Senior Capstone

Stories like St. John’s trial in boiling oil, pictured in Kerver's 1507 Book of Hours, were used by the Church to demonstrate the power of faith against threats of pain and death.This essay examines the symbolism in the image of St. John's martyrdom and discusses how narratives of self-sacrifice worked to inspire the spread of Christianity.


13, The Tree Of Jesse, Bridget Eide Jan 2018

13, The Tree Of Jesse, Bridget Eide

Kerver Book of Hours: 2018 Senior Capstone

The Tree of Jesse was a popular medieval theme used to represent the family tree of Christ. More specifically, it was used to represent Christ’s human ancestors, including Jesse, King David, and the Virgin Mary. This essay discusses the iconography and symbolism in this Book of Hours' image of the Tree of Jesse.


04, Condition Report, Nalani Meinken Jan 2018

04, Condition Report, Nalani Meinken

Kerver Book of Hours: 2018 Senior Capstone

This document is a detailed report on the physical condition of the 1507 Book of Hours, including the structure, materials, wear, alterations, and anomalies of its text block, contents and cover.


05, Kerver's Widow And Female Printers In Sixteenth-Century France, Darrah Culp Jan 2018

05, Kerver's Widow And Female Printers In Sixteenth-Century France, Darrah Culp

Kerver Book of Hours: 2018 Senior Capstone

After the Parisian printer Thielman Kerver died in 1522, his widow Iolande Bonhomme took over his shop at the "Sign of the Unicorn" in the Rue St. Jacques, and in 1526 she produced the first Bible printed by a woman. This essay discusses Bonhomme's assumption of the business and the roles and skills open to the widows of certain tradesmen in medieval France.


Black Wax(Ing): On Gil Scott-Heron And The Walking Interlude, Derrais Carter Jan 2018

Black Wax(Ing): On Gil Scott-Heron And The Walking Interlude, Derrais Carter

Black Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

The film opens in an unidentified wax museum. The camera pans from right to left, zooming in on key Black historical figures who have been memorialized in wax. W.E.B. Du Bois, Marian Anderson, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, and Duke Ellington stand out. The final wax figure, a Black man, sits with an empty card box in his right hand and a lit cigarette in his left. The film’s narrator appears: a slim, afroed Black man. He sits to the right of the figure. The only living person in a room full of bodies, he reaches over to grab the …


02, 16th-Century French-Spanish Book Trade, Henry Tallman Jan 2018

02, 16th-Century French-Spanish Book Trade, Henry Tallman

Kerver Book of Hours: 2018 Senior Capstone

While it is impossible to trace the specific journey of the 1507 Kerver Book of Hours, it is consistent with the historical record to conclude that it was produced for an international market, and quite plausibly, specifically for the Catalonian Spanish market. This essay summarizes the development of the book trade between France and Spain by 1600 and the importance of books of hours to that market.


17, The Crucifixion, Shawn Peralta Jan 2018

17, The Crucifixion, Shawn Peralta

Kerver Book of Hours: 2018 Senior Capstone

The image of the Crucifixion of Jesus in the Book of Hours provides visual context for remembrance of the Octave of Easter in the liturgical calendar, and it is also the basis for the Passion of Jesus. This essay discusses the Biblical context, characters, and symbols included in the illustration of the Crucifixion in Thielman Kerver's 1507 printing.


06, Kerver's 1507 Book Of Hours And The Four "Spanish Saints", Sophia Germond Jan 2018

06, Kerver's 1507 Book Of Hours And The Four "Spanish Saints", Sophia Germond

Kerver Book of Hours: 2018 Senior Capstone

This essay presents research on four saints included in the Book of Hours' liturgical calendar who were particularly celebrated in Spain, suggesting that the book was printed to be distributed to the Spanish market.


12, Signs Of The Apocalypse, Cora Beth Finney Jan 2018

12, Signs Of The Apocalypse, Cora Beth Finney

Kerver Book of Hours: 2018 Senior Capstone

Books of Hours are one of the richest sources of medieval apocalyptic imagery. In Thielman Kerver’s 1507 printing, over seventy images relating to the Signs of the Apocalypse appear within the margins of its Hours of the Trinity and the Office of the Dead. Apocalyptic iconography is commonly found accompanying the prayer cycles of the Office of the Dead in late medieval Books of Hours, although it is less common in the Hours of the Trinity, making this placement in this Book of Hours unusual. In this text, the images depicting the Signs of the Apocalypse can be separated into …


Can Reducing Income Inequality Decouple Economic Growth And Co2 Emissions, Julius Alexander Mcgee, Patrick Greiner Jan 2018

Can Reducing Income Inequality Decouple Economic Growth And Co2 Emissions, Julius Alexander Mcgee, Patrick Greiner

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

In the past two decades, income inequality has steadily increased in most developed nations. During this same period, the growth rate of CO2 emissions has declined in many developed nations, cumulating to a recent period of decoupling between economic growth and CO2 emissions. The aim of the present study is to advance research on socioeconomic drivers of CO2 emissions by assessing how the distribution of income affects the relationship between economic growth and CO2 emissions. The authors find that from 1985 to 2011, rising income inequality leads to a tighter coupling between economic growth and CO …


Invisible Walls Mapping Residential Segregation In Portland, Katrine Barber Jan 2018

Invisible Walls Mapping Residential Segregation In Portland, Katrine Barber

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

In spring 2018, students in a Portland State University (PSU) course set out to understand how barriers to home ownership among families of color — as well as resistance to those barriers — have historical and continuing influence on our city. Over the previous year, a conversation with Ryan Curren of Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, who had contacted PSU’s History Department for research assistance, gave rise to the crowdsourcing of deeds holding restrictive covenants, the PSU class described here, and a partnership with the Vanport Mosaic (vanportmosaic.org) — a local nonprofit that works to amplify, honor, and preserve …