The Absent Image

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"This is one of the most original books I have read-original in its conception and subject, in the materials studied and illustrated, in the numerous questions posed, and in its compelling conclusions. It is a potentially paradigm-shifting work that will affect how we perceive illustrated manuscripts and that should finally put to rest for art historians the 'intentional fallacy' long rejected by literary historians."-Richard K. Emmerson, author of Apocalypse Illuminated: The Visual Exegesis of Revelation in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts "This is an intellectually ambitious, rigorously argued, and erudite book that explores visual strategies and their theoretical underpinnings of 'empty spaces' in medieval manuscripts. A must-read for scholars of medieval and northern Renaissance art and intellectual history."-Nino Zchomelidse, author of Art, Ritual, and Civic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy