Hageman Mariëlle, Mostert Marco (Editors). Reading Images and Texts: Medieval Images and Texts as Forms of Communication

Brepols, 2005. — ISBN: 2-503-51437-5.How did people know what they knew, and learn what they learned? As Derek Pearsall's introduction makes clear this is the primary focus of this collection of essays published in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the foundation of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. The learning materials included range from grammar books to mystery plays, and from court records to monastic chronicles, as well as liturgical and devotional texts. But the essays are not only concerned with texts alone, but with the broader and often fluid social environments in which learning took place. Many of the papers therefore question the validity of some distinctions habitually used in the discussion of medieval culture, such as the opposition between orality and literacy, between Latin and the vernacular or between secular and religious.Reading Images and Texts: Some Preliminary Observations Instead of an Introduction
Corporeal Texts, Spiritual Paintings, and the Mind’s Eye
Was Art Really the “Book of the Illiterate”?
Reflections on “Was Art Really the ‘Book of the Illiterate’?”
Paradise and Pentecost
Changing Perceptions of the Visual in the Middle Ages: Hucbald of St. Amand’s Carolingian Rewriting of Prudentius
Oral Tradition in Visual Art: The Romanesque Theodoric
Perceptions of the History of the Church in the Early Middle Ages
Saintly Images: Visions of Saints in Hagiographical Texts
Pictor Iconiam Litterarum: Rituals as Visual Elements in Early Medieval Ruler Portraits in Word and Image
Paulinus of Nola and the Image Within the Image
Meditations on a Christmas Card: Strategies of Empathy in a Fourteenth-Century Liturgical Illumination
The Wall Paintings in the Campanile of the Church of S. Nicola in Lanciano (c.1300-1400): Reading an Unknown Legend of the Cross in the Abruzzi
Cum ipso sunt in hac nativitate congeniti: Dove, Throne and City in the Arch Mosaics of Sta. Maria Maggiore in Rome (432-440)
Les Peintures de la Crypte de Tavant: Etat de la Question et Perspectives de Recherche
La Piété Princière dans l’Image et la Parole: La Plaque de Wiślica (Petite Pologne) de la Deuxième Moitié du XIIe Siècle
The Ambiguity of Eros: An Image of the Antique God of Love in a Christian Encyclopaedia
Ottonian Tituliin Liturgical Books
Texte et Image dans le Manuscrit de Madrid de la Chroniquede Skylitzès
‘Reading’ Images and Texts in the Bibles moralisées: Images as Exegesis and the Exegesis of Images
Les Images de la Porte Romane comme un Livre Ouvert à l’Entrée de l’Eglise