Fair and Varied Forms Visual Textuality in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts

List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE -- Graphic Signification -- Perception and Corwepnun -- Potency of Images and Words -- Modes of Interaction and Substitution: Metaphoric Tropes -- Structure in the Graphic Field -- Contexts -- CHAPTER TWO -- Inner Space, Outer Space, Graphic Space: Words and Picture; in Anglo-Saxon Culture -- The Print-culture Bias -- Anglo-Saxon Attitudes toward Scribes, Illustrators, and the Visual -- Anglo-Saxon Readers and Writers -- Anglo-Saxon Artisans -- Image Veneration -- Anglo-Saxon Illustrated hooks -- Patterns of Identification: Schemata -- Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: Metaphoric Tropes -- Patterns of Relationship: Spatial Models -- Images of Time -- Time and Space on the Manuscript Page -- CHAPTER THREE -- The Reading Subject and the Devotional Text: The Harley Psalter -- The Manuscript -- The Psalms in Anglo-Saxon Life -- Purpose of the Harley Psalter -- Psalm 33 -- Psalm I -- Psalm 113 -- Patterns of Relationship: Cosmic Space -- Patterns of Identification: Schematizarion and the Representation of Xmen -- The Political Nature of the Psalter -- Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: More on Metaphor -- CHAPTER FOUR -- Narratise Time in Graphic Space: The Illustrated Hexateuch -- The stanuscript -- Patterns of Identification: Schemata -- Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: Metaphoric Tropes -- Patterns of Relationship: Movement in Narrative Space -- Spatial Time -- Allegorical lime -- CHAPTER FIVBE -- My Monster, Myself: The Mantels of the Last -- The Manuscript -- The Monstrous Races -- Patterns of Ideiuification: Schematic Monsters -- Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: Dog-Ants and Valkyry-eyed Beasts -- Patterns of Relationship: Occupying the Framed Space -- CHAPTER SIX -- Marginal Portraits and the Fiction of Orality: -- The Ellesmere Manuscript -- Changes in the Making and Reading of Texts Since the Eleventh Century -- Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales -- Patterns of Relationship: Page Layout and the Reader -- Modes of Identification: Schemata and Discursive Detail -- Patterns of Substitution and Interaction: Metonymic Focus on Orality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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Mary C. Olson