ENGL 3560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Middle Ages, Illuminated Manuscript
15 Sep 2016
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Punctus: a period, a symbol back then to tell the reader to take a breath. Punctus (for readers with less knowledge of the language, less literate) Illuminated manuscripts = an illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented with such decoration as initials, borders and miniature illustrations. Book of hours = if you were well-off, you owned this book / if you were really rich, you commissioned an artist to make you one superimposing your face into the art. A medieval calendar is a list and description of church feasts - that is, major events in the liturgical year - advent, christmas, lent, and. Poems in the medieval ages often shared refrains. Liturgy: religiosity, when you go to church and the service. People would pray to mary asking her to ask jesus to do something for them because she has a personal relationship with jesus.
