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Catherine
E. Karkov.
Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative
Strategies
in the Junius 11 Manuscript.
Cambridge U.P., 2002.
Cambridge Studies
in
Anglo-Saxon England 38.
238 pages, 61 half-tones.
Hardback
ISBN
0521800692.
Publisher's
recommended price £45.00
This book
explores
the complex interrelationship between texts and drawings in the
late-tenth
or early-eleventh century Junius II manuscript, the only surviving
illustrated
Anglo-Saxon poetic manuscript. The book, which contains a plate section
of sixty-one illustrations, focuses on the way in which the drawings
both
illustrate the text and translate it into a new visual language. Poems
and illustrations work to create a carefully crafted and unified
manuscript,
but both also use formulaic language, iconography and compositions to
construct
a web of intertextual and intervisual references that open the poems to
readings far more diverse than those of the biblical books on which
they
are based. Together poems and drawings create a new and unique version
of biblical history, and suggest ways in which biblical history relates
to Anglo-Saxon history and the manuscript's Anglo-Saxon audience - a
process
which has been extended by the manuscript’s many editors to include
contemporary
history and the contemporary reader.
Contents:
List
of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: problems and solutions; 2.
Structure,
style and design; 3. The pictorial narrative of Genesis; 4. Word, sign
and reader; 5. The book and the body; 6. The historical narrative;
Bibliography;
Index.
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