04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R
Research Hall 201
Section Information for Spring 2019
This course will provide a detailed study of manuscript decoration in the early Middle Ages in France, Germany, Britain, and Ireland. We will consider the religious, social, and cultural contexts surrounding the development of book arts during the medieval period, particularly in the Carolingian and Insular realms and how these influences are displayed on the pages of individual manuscripts. Central to this discussion will be a comparative analysis of the regional differences and unifying motifs present throughout manuscript exemplars of each area, including the Lindau Gospels, the Gospels of Otto III, the Lindisfarne Gospels, and the Book of Kells. Who were the artist-scribes that created these manuscripts and how did monastic communities influence the proliferation of book culture and library foundations throughout Christendom? What were the didactic and exegetical functions of these texts and how did decoration provide a connection with the divine? We will utilize contemporary digitized manuscript collections to facilitate a detailed encounter with each text.
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Credits: 1-6
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.
Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.
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