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- catalog abstract ""Animating the Letter explores developments in writing in the Middle Ages. Laura Kendrick's subject is the ways in which images - the beautifully designed and decorated letters in illuminated manuscripts - empowered writing." "Kendrick's clear and accessible writing is enhanced by 107 photographs of medieval manuscripts. Animating the Letter will surely appeal to medievalists, but it will also appeal to anyone interested in the history of writing and the development of the book in Western culture."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11336550.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Animating the Letter explores developments in writing in the Middle Ages. Laura Kendrick's subject is the ways in which images - the beautifully designed and decorated letters in illuminated manuscripts - empowered writing." "Kendrick's clear and accessible writing is enhanced by 107 photographs of medieval manuscripts. Animating the Letter will surely appeal to medievalists, but it will also appeal to anyone interested in the history of writing and the development of the book in Western culture."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-309) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The Being of the Letter/L'Etre de la Lettre -- 1. Writing as Relic: The Mythologizing of Alphabetic Writing as Bodily Trace -- 2. Writing Versus Image in Christian Thought: Writing as Image in Christian Practice -- 3. Animistic Exegeses: Christ's Incarnation in Holy Scripture and the Figures of the Letter -- 4. Sacred Letters as Dangerous Letters and Reading as Struggle -- 5. Enigma and Authority: Early Medieval Gospels -- 6. Archaeology of the Author Function -- Conclusion: The Letter in Renaissance Perspective -- App. The Jesting Borders of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and of Late Medieval Manuscript Art.".
- catalog extent "ix, 326 p., 8 p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Animating the letter.".
- catalog identifier "0814208223 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Animating the letter.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Animating the letter.".
- catalog spatial "Europe.".
- catalog subject "302.2/244/0902 21".
- catalog subject "Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval Europe.".
- catalog subject "Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.".
- catalog subject "Initials.".
- catalog subject "NK3610 .K46 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The Being of the Letter/L'Etre de la Lettre -- 1. Writing as Relic: The Mythologizing of Alphabetic Writing as Bodily Trace -- 2. Writing Versus Image in Christian Thought: Writing as Image in Christian Practice -- 3. Animistic Exegeses: Christ's Incarnation in Holy Scripture and the Figures of the Letter -- 4. Sacred Letters as Dangerous Letters and Reading as Struggle -- 5. Enigma and Authority: Early Medieval Gospels -- 6. Archaeology of the Author Function -- Conclusion: The Letter in Renaissance Perspective -- App. The Jesting Borders of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and of Late Medieval Manuscript Art.".
- catalog title "Animating the letter : the figurative embodiment of writing from late antiquity to the Renaissance / Laura Kendrick.".
- catalog type "text".