Script as image
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Script as image
(Corpus, v. 21)
Peeters, 2014
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
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  France
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the Middle Ages, writing conveyed far more than information. In
contradistinction to the modern separation of image and text and, by
implication, form and content, which was reified with the invention of
printing, illuminated manuscripts made images out of words. In
consonance with Christian doctrine, which declared that the Word had
become flesh, letters painted on parchment assumed bodily presence to
create effects of power and persuasion. Painted letters elicited modes
of performance, oral recitation and ritual action. Far from calligraphic
ornament or a medium with prescribed boundaries, medieval lettering
reveals itself as a flexible instrument in which various categories of
human experience and expression -- the audible, the visible, the
symbolic and the figurative -- come together. Among the topics touched
on by this book are display scripts, monograms, nomina sacra and carmina
figurata, epigraphic inscriptions, chrysography and color, speech
scrolls, relationships among author, scribe and artist as expressed
through scripts, the anthropomorphic dimensions of abstract lettering,
and the impact of iconic scripts on the reader.
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