Buy this book on-line Marilynn Desmond & Pamela Sheingorn : Myth, Montage, and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture: Christine de Pizan's Epistre OtheaThe University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2003 ISBN 0472113232
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Q4 - A first edition (numberline starts at "1") hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping and some crease on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 10.25"x7.25", 344 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. The material properties of late medieval manuscripts testify to the power of visual images to shape both the reading experience and the reader. Early-fifteenth-century Paris saw a proliferation of luxury manuscripts whose luminous illustrations situate the reader as spectator, and Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea exemplifies the power of visual representation to shape the medieval reading experience. according to the rhetoric of the Othea, the body, character, and soul of the reader are formed as a result of simultaneously viewing the images and reading the text. In Myth, Montage, and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture Marilynn Desmond and Pamela Sheingorn analyze the ways in which Othea manuscripts display classical myths for late medieval humanist, chivalric, and Christian readers. Desmond and Sheingorn's innovative study draws extensively on film theory and its notions of spectatorship to explore the ethnical implications of viewing illustrated manuscripts for the medieval reader. Focusing particularly on the twin manuscripts of the Othea in the Duke's manuscript and the Queen's manuscript, the authors suggest that premodern and postmodern cultures share a predilection for the cinematic arrangement of knowledge in a montage format in which meaning derives from unexpected juxtapositions. Desmond and Sheingorn's interdisciplinary endeavor sheds new light on the study of medieval women writers, the medieval reception of classical myth, manuscript studies and codicology, gender and sexuality, and theoretical approaches to visual cultures, particularly the value of film theory for the study of premodern cultures.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Marilynn Desmond & Pamela Sheingorn : Myth, Montage, and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture: Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, libri antichi, fine bindings, collectables and out of print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |