VISA-3027 Lecture 6: Podcast: Book Arts in the Early Medieval Period
4 Jul 2020
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Nunnery is same but for women (slide 32 - 35) skelling michael monastery. Some monastery isn"t allowed to own land: staircase that leads to living quarters, very romantic to us but very arduous. Create fairly tight but not protected from water or air: neeed strong commitment for god to live. Interior is square with small fire (not sure), with some ledge (small storage: rain system for water and maintence of crop, multiple wall to create settlement that"s buffer from elements but not much. Codex sinaiticus special: time, text arrangement using scroll - keeping with reading arrangement (slide 37) the story of jacob. Insular - different term of hiberno, means of an island, book production in england, scotland and ireland: aesthetic is different, folio in new testiment of mathew, has symbol of mathew has frame with complex interlacing with gold leaf. Illumination: a painting on paper or parchment used for illustration or decoration in a medieval manuscript.
