In Honor of Adelaide Bennett Hagens I: Text-Image Dynamics in Medieval Manuscripts

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Index of Christian Art, Princeton Univ.

Organizer Name

Jessica Savage, Judith Golden

Organizer Affiliation

Index of Christian Art, Princeton Univ., Index of Christian Art, Princeton Univ.

Presider Name

Judith H. Oliver

Presider Affiliation

Colgate Univ.

Paper Title 1

Artists and Autonomy: Written Instructions and Preliminary Drawings for the Illuminator in the Huntington Library Legenda aurea (HM 3027)

Presenter 1 Name

Martha Easton

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Seton Hall Univ.

Paper Title 2

Bodies of Words: Text and Image in an Illustrated Anatomical Codex (Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 399)

Presenter 2 Name

Taylor McCall

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Cambridge

Paper Title 3

Sealed with a Kiss: A Votive "Closing" in the Claricia Psalter (Walters MS W.26)

Presenter 3 Name

Benjamin C. Tilghman

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Lawrence Univ./Material Collective

Start Date

12-5-2017 1:30 PM

Session Location

Sangren 1750

Description

This session will examine the interaction between words and images in medieval manuscripts as they shape the reader-viewer’s experience of the book. How do texts and images interact on the page? How did medieval readers respond to the varied discourses between images and texts? This session endeavors to open up new perspectives in describing, analyzing, and contextualizing manuscript illumination according to their intrinsic or peripheral textual elements. Papers in this session will undertake a close study of a particular manuscript and will expand upon theories for image-text composition by reviewing evidence of an artist’s written instructions; reading images with layered text additions, omissions or annotations; and recovering the reader’s experience through text and iconography.

Jessica L. Savage