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Author Kingsley, Jennifer P

Title The Bernward Gospels Art, Memory, and the Episcopate in Medieval Germany
Published University Park : Penn State University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (331 p.)
Contents Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE / MEMORY -- TWO / SERVICE -- THREE / SIGHT -- FOUR / TOUCH -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary 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 naïveté, 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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
In English
Subject Bernward, Bishop of Hildesheim, approximately 960-1022.
SUBJECT Bernward, Bishop of Hildesheim, approximately 960-1022 fast
Subject Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts -- Illustrations.
Diözesan-Museum Hildesheim.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Diözesan-Museum Hildesheim fast
Bernward Gospels -- Illustrations
Bible. Gospels -- Illustrations
Bible. Gospels fast
Subject Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ottonian -- Germany -- Hildesheim
Evangeliaries -- Germany -- Hildesheim -- Illustrations
Christian art and symbolism -- Germany -- Hildesheim -- Medieval, 500-1500
ART / History / Medieval.
Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval
Evangeliaries
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ottonian
Liturgics -- Texts
Germany -- Hildesheim
Genre/Form Illustrated works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271077642
0271077646
9780271064253
0271064250