Reading Images and Texts: Medieval Images and Texts as Forms of Communication. Papers from the Third Utrecht Symposium on Medieval Literacy, Utrecht, 7-9 December 2000

576 Pages·2005·31.065 MB·English

by  Mariëlle Hageman, Marco Mostert

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UTRECHT STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERACY
General Editor
Marco Mostert (University of Utrecht)
Editorial Board
Gerd Althoff (Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Michael Clanchy (University of London)
Peter Gumbert (University of Leiden)
Mayke de Jong (University of Utrecht)
Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge)
Arpád Orbán (University of Utrecht)
Armando Petrucci (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Richard H. Rouse (UCLA)
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READING IMAGES AND TEXTS
MEDIEVAL IMAGES AND TEXTS AS
FORMS OF COMMUNICATION
PAPERS FROM THE THIRD UTRECHT SYMPOSIUM
ON MEDIEVAL LITERACY,
UTRECHT, 7-9 DECEMBER 2000
Edited by
and
Mariëlle Hageman Marco Mostert
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Contents
Preface vii
Abbreviations ix
Reading Images and Texts: Some Preliminary Observations
Instead of an Introduction
MARCO MOSTERT 1
Corporeal Texts, Spiritual Paintings, and the Mind’s Eye
HERBERT L. KESSLER 9
Was Art Really the “Book of the Illiterate”?
LAWRENCE G. DUGGAN 63
Reflections on “Was Art Really the ‘Book of the Illiterate’?”
LAWRENCE G. DUGGAN 109
Paradise and Pentecost
CLAUDINE A. CHAVANNES-MAZEL 121
Changing Perceptions of the Visual in the Middle Ages:
Hucbald of St. Amand’s Carolingian Rewriting of Prudentius
WILLIAM J. DIEBOLD 161
Oral Tradition in Visual Art: The Romanesque Theodoric
MICHAEL CURSCHMANN 177
Perceptions of the History of the Church in the Early Middle Ages
ROSAMOND MCKITTERICK 207
Saintly Images: Visions of Saints in Hagiographical Texts
WOLFERT S. VAN EGMOND 221
Pictor Iconiam Litterarum: Rituals as Visual Elements in Early
Medieval Ruler Portraits in Word and Image
MARIËLLE HAGEMAN 239
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Paulinus of Nola and the Image Within the Image
GISELLE DE NIE 261
Meditations on a Christmas Card: Strategies of Empathy in a
Fourteenth-Century Liturgical Illumination
KARL F. MORRISON 291
The Wall Paintings in the Campanile of the Church of S. Nicola in
Lanciano (c. 1300-1400): Reading an Unknown Legend of the
Cross in the Abruzzi
BARBARA BAERT 311
Cum ipso sunt in hac nativitate congeniti: Dove, Throne and City
in the Arch Mosaics of Sta. Maria Maggiore in Rome (432-440)
CAECILIA DAVIS-WEYER 367
Les Peintures de la Crypte de Tavant: Etat de la Question et Perspectives
de Recherche
ERIC PALAZZO 395
La Piété Princière dans l’Image et la Parole: La Plaque de Wi(cid:1)lica
(Petite Pologne) de la Deuxième Moitié du XIIe Siècle
ANNA ADAMSKA 425
The Ambiguity of Eros: An Image of the Antique God of Love
in a Christian Encyclopaedia
ESTHER MULDERS 445
Ottonian Tituli in Liturgical Books
HENRY MAYR-HARTING 457
Texte et Image dans le Manuscrit de Madrid de la Chronique de
Skylitzès
MICHEL KAPLAN 477
‘Reading’ Images and Texts in the Bibles moralisées: Images as
Exegesis and the Exegesis of Images
JOHN LOWDEN 495
Les Images de la Porte Romane comme un Livre Ouvert à l’Entrée
de l’Eglise
XAVIER BARRAL I ALTET 527
Plates 545
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Preface
This volume contains papers from an international symposium entitled
“Reading Images and Texts: Medieval Images and Texts as Forms of
Communication”. The colloquiumwas held at the University of Utrecht
(7-9 December, 2000). We want to thank all those present at the symposiumfor
taking part in the lively discussions. Sadly, Michael Camille, who had spoken
on “Reading the Textless Image: The Ceiling at St. Martin, Zillis”, died shortly
after the symposium and before he had been able to prepare his paper for publi-
cation. We are doubly sorry because his work had been one of the inspirations
for the organization of the symposium.1 His incisive remarks made in the
course of the discussions have not made it into print.
The preparation of these proceedings has taken an inordinate amount of
time. Fortunately, the papers published here are by no means outdated on the
day the book is finally in print. A careful reader with a bibliographical bent
maynotice the odd absence of references to literature published in the last two
or three years. The contributors have been given the option of updating their
references, and some valiant efforts have been made. However, the editors have
had to protect several contributors against the temptation of rewriting substan-
tial parts of their texts. The published contributions therefore reflect the opin-
ions contained in the papers as they were pronounced in December 2000, even
when they had been revised in the light of the discussions. That the texts,
published in the order in which they were delivered at the symposium, can
stand the test of time is a tribute to the sound scholarship of their authors.
1 We are thinking especially of his “Seeing and reading: Some visual implications of
medieval literacy and illiteracy”, Art History 8 (1985), pp. 26-49, but also of his “The language
ofimages in medieval England, 1200-1400", in: Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet Wngland
1200-1400, ed. J. ALEXANDER and P. BINSKY (London, 1987), pp. 33-40, of “Visual signs of the
sacred page: Books in the Bible moralisée”, Word and Image 5 (1989), pp. 111-130 and Images
on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art (London, 1992).
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A special word of thanks goes to the editors of Word and Image, who per-
mitted Lawrence Duggan to reprint his “Was Art Really the ‘Book of the Illiter-
ate’?”, published originally in 1989, without which his “Reflections” would be
slightly harder to follow. We also thank Irene van Renswoude for her patient
assistance before and during the colloquium.
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Abbreviations
AASS Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, vel a catholicis
scriptoribus celebrantur, quae ex latinis et graecis aliarumque
gentium antiquis monumentis collegit, digessit, notis illustravit J.
BOLLANDUS, ed. G. HENSCHENIUS, 1- (Antwerp, then Brussels,
then Brussels and Paris, then Paris, 1643-).
BHG Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca, 3rd edn., ed. F. HALKIN, 3
vols. (Brussels, 1957, repr. 1985: Subsidia Hagiographica 8a).
BHL Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis, ed.
SOCII BOLLANDIANI (Brussels, 1898-1899: Subsidia Hagiographi-
ca 6) and Novum Supplementum, ed. H. FROS (Brussels, 1986:
Subsidia Hagiographica 70).
CCCM Corpus Christianorum: Continuatio Mediaevalis, 1- (Turnhout,
1966-)
CCSL Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina, 1- (1954-)
CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 1-(Vienna,1866-)
MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica
AA Auctores Antiquissimi, 15 vols. (Berlin, 1877-1919)
CAPP Capitularia Regum Francorum, 2 vols. (Hannover, 1883-1897)
CONC Concilia, 1- (Hannover and Leipzig, then Leipzig, 1893-)
EPP Epistolae (in Quarto), 1-8.1 (Berlin, 1887-1939)
LL Leges (in Folio), 5 vols. (Hannover, 1835-1889)
PP Poetae Latini medii aevi, 6 vols. (Berlin, then Leipzig, Mün-
chen, Weimar, 1881-1979)
SRG Scriptores rerum Germanicarum
SRM Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, 7 vols. (Hannover and Leip-
zig, 1884-1951)
PG Patrologiae cursus completus ... Series Graeca, ed. J.P. MIGNE,
161 vols. (Paris, 1857-1936)
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x Abbreviations
PL Patrologiae cursus completus ... Series Latina, ed. J.P. MIGNE, 221
vols. (Paris, 1841-1864)
SC Sources Chrétiennes, 1- (Paris, 1942-)
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