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Global Medievalism: From Model Books To Manga, Leslie D. Ross Apr 2017

Global Medievalism: From Model Books To Manga, Leslie D. Ross

Leslie Ross

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Typology, Elizabeth Teviotdale Dec 2009

Typology, Elizabeth Teviotdale

Elizabeth C Teviotdale

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Review Of The Exhibition 799: Kunst Und Kultur Der Karolingerzeit, Melanie Holcomb, Elizabeth Teviotdale Dec 2000

Review Of The Exhibition 799: Kunst Und Kultur Der Karolingerzeit, Melanie Holcomb, Elizabeth Teviotdale

Elizabeth C Teviotdale

A review of the exhibition mounted at three venues in Paderborn in 1999, contrasting it with the exhibition Karl der Grosse, mounted in 1965 in Aachen, and assessing the integration of objects traditionally regarded as artifacts with those considered to be high art.


Latin Verse Inscriptions In Anglo-Saxon Art, Elizabeth Teviotdale Dec 1995

Latin Verse Inscriptions In Anglo-Saxon Art, Elizabeth Teviotdale

Elizabeth C Teviotdale

This article identifies the corpus of surviving Anglo-Saxon works of art with newly composed Latin verse inscriptions: 19 paintings and drawings in seven manuscripts, one carved stone, and one engraved portable altar. A significant flourishing of the practice of including verse in works of art is associated with the Benedictine monastic reform movement of the mid-10th century. The nature of the relationship, both denotative and spatial, between the inscriptions and the images they accompany is explored through the examination of selected representative examples. It is proposed that the Anglo-Saxons understood this poetry to be an essentially written and visual art …


Latin Verse Inscriptions In Late Anglo-Saxon Art, Elizabeth Teviotdale Jul 1993

Latin Verse Inscriptions In Late Anglo-Saxon Art, Elizabeth Teviotdale

Elizabeth C Teviotdale

Examines the inscriptions in seven manuscripts and on a portable altar. All of the inscriptions are hexameters. Argues that the Anglo-Saxons understood the poetry to be an essentially written and visual (as opposed to oral) art form and that, even as the literary pretensions of the poetry declined during the course of the late Anglo-Saxon period, the presentation of the poetry increased in its sophistication.


The Picture Inscriptions In The Cotton Troper, Elizabeth Teviotdale Apr 1992

The Picture Inscriptions In The Cotton Troper, Elizabeth Teviotdale

Elizabeth C Teviotdale

A consideration of the hexameter inscriptions surrounding the miniatures in the Cotton Troper (London, BL, MS Cotton Caligula A.xiv, fols. 1-36), assessing the style and character of the verses and their dependence on antecedent texts, both Latin and vernacular.