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 Elina Gertsman, The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books University Park: Penn State University Press, 2021 in: caa.review.2022.35 http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/3983 David Ganz: Review Richard K. Emmerson, Apocalypse Illuminated: The Visual Exegesis of Revelation in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts, University Park (Pennsylvania), Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018, in: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 256 (2021), 393-394. https://journals.openedition.org/ccm/8786

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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 ca. 200 articles written by specialists of the respective topic.

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