TEXTURES OF SACRED SCRIPTURE

Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament in the Western Middle Ages, 780-1300

Publications

Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, Msc.Bibl.95, textile cover

Reviews

Thomas Rainer: Review Anna Bücheler, Ornament as Argument. Textile Pages and Textile Metaphors in Early Medieval Manuscripts, Berlin / Boston 2019, in: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 2021 (in print)

David Ganz: Review Beatrice Kitzinger, The Cross, the Gospels and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age, in: The Art Bulletin, 102, 2020, 133-135

Handbook

The Handbook of Medieval Book Ornament aims to give a survey of up-to-date research on the materials, the techniques and the semantics of deluxe manuscripts in the Western Middle Ages. It will comprise over 150 articles written by specialists of the respective topic.