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Bernward Gospels:

Art, Memory, and the Episcopate in Medieval Germany
  • ISBN-13: 9780271060798
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Jennifer P. Kingsley
  • Price: AUD $174.00
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2014
  • Format: Hardback 228 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]
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An interpretive study of the pictorial program of the Ottonian Bernward Gospels. Examines how the manuscript conditioned contemporary and future viewers to remember early medieval Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Memory

2 Service

3 Sight

4 Touch

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“[Jennifer] Kingsley’s book is solidly constructed, accurate in the analysis and knowledge of texts and scholarship, as well as historical context. The classic and innovative approach opens new perspectives for the study of the great monuments of manuscript painting in the Ottonian period.”

—Éric Palazzo, Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale

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