The Bernward Gospels : art, memory, and the episcopate in medieval Germany
- Responsibility
- Jennifer P. Kingsley.
- Publication
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
- Copyright notice
- ©2014
- Physical description
- 1 online resource (ix, 195 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles (some color)
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Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Kingsley, Jennifer P., 1978- author.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Contents
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Memory
- 2 Service
- 3 Sight
- 4 Touch Conclusion
- Appendix Notes Bibliography Index.
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- Summary
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Few works of art better illustrate the splendor of eleventh-century painting than the manuscript often referred to as the "precious gospels" of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim, with its peculiar combination of sophistication and na vet , its dramatically gesturing figures, and the saturated colors of its densely ornamented surfaces. In The Bernward Gospels, Jennifer Kingsley offers the first interpretive study of the pictorial program of this famed manuscript and considers how the gospel book conditioned contemporary and future viewers to remember the bishop. The codex constructs a complex image of a minister caring for his diocese not only through a life of service but also by means of his exceptional artistic patronage; of a bishop exercising the sacerdotal authority of his office; and of a man fundamentally preoccupied with his own salvation and desire to unite with God through both his sight and touch. Kingsley insightfully demonstrates how this prominent member of the early medieval episcopate presented his role to the saints and to the communities called upon to remember him.
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Subjects
- Subject
- Bernward Gospels > Illustrations.
- Bernward, Bishop of Hildesheim, approximately 960-1022.
- Bible. Gospels > Illustrations.
- Catholic Church > Liturgy > Texts > Illustrations.
- Bernwardus Hildesheimensis 960-1022
- Bernward-Evangeliar
- Bernward, Bishop of Hildesheim, approximately 960-1022.
- Catholic Church.
- Bible. Gospels.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ottonian > Germany > Hildesheim.
- Evangeliaries > Germany > Hildesheim > Illustrations.
- Christian art and symbolism > Germany > Hildesheim > Medieval, 500-1500.
- ART > Folk & Outsider Art.
- CRAFTS & HOBBIES > Folkcrafts.
- Buchmalerei
- Christian art and symbolism > Medieval.
- Evangeliaries.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ottonian.
- Liturgics > Texts.
- Germany > Hildesheim.
- Genre
- Illustrated works.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2014
- ISBN
- 9780271064253 (electronic bk.)
- 0271064250 (electronic bk.)
- 9780271060798
- 0271060794
