Illuminating Metalwork: Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Illuminating Metalwork

Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts

Edited by: Joseph Salvatore Ackley and Shannon L. Wearing

Volume 4 in the series Sense, Matter, and Medium

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110637526

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About this book

The presence of gold, silver, and other metals is a hallmark of decorated manuscripts, the very characteristic that makes them “illuminated.” Medieval artists often used metal pigment and leaf to depict metal objects both real and imagined, such as chalices, crosses, tableware, and even idols; the luminosity of these representations contrasted pointedly with the surrounding paints, enriching the page and dazzling the viewer. To elucidate this key artistic tradition, this volume represents the first in-depth scholarly assessment of the depiction of precious-metal objects in manuscripts and the media used to conjure them. From Paris to the Abbasid caliphate, and from Ethiopia to Bruges, the case studies gathered here forge novel approaches to the materiality and pictoriality of illumination. In exploring the semiotic, material, iconographic, and technical dimensions of these manuscripts, the authors reveal the canny ways in which painters generated metallic presence on the page. Illuminating Metalwork is a landmark contribution to the study of the medieval book and its visual and embodied reception, and is poised to be a staple of research in art history and manuscript studies, accessible to undergraduates and specialists alike.

Author information

Joseph Salvatore Ackley, Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, USA; Shannon L. Wearing, Pontifical Inst. of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
I Introduction
Preciousness on Parchment: Materiality, Pictoriality, and the Decorated Book Joseph Salvatore Ackley and Shannon L. Wearing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II Technique
Surface Effect and Substance: Precious Metals in Illuminated Manuscripts Nancy K. Turner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
III Representation
Metal Labor, Material Conversions: Goldsmiths in the Life of St. Denis and in Parisian Life, ca. 1300 Brigitte Buettner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Copying, Imitation, and Intermediality in Illuminated Ethiopic Manuscripts from the Early Solomonic Period Jacopo Gnisci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
The Colors of Metalworks: The Painted Materials of Machinery in Byzantium Roland Betancourt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
IV Material Translations
Metal, Materiality, and Maṣāḥif: Ornamentation in Abbasid Qur’ans Beatrice Leal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Manuscript as Metalwork: Haptic Vision in Early Carolingian Gospel Books Beth Fischer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
A “Multimedia” Manuscript: Metalwork and the Siegburg Lectionary Heidi C. Gearhart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Illuminating Luxury: The Gray-Gold Flemish Grisailles Sophia Ronan Rochmes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
V Treasuries in Books, Books as Treasuries
The Golden Spaces of the Uta Codex Eliza Garrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
The Matter of Memory: Illuminated Metalwork in the Vita of St. Albinus of Angers Sasha Gorjeltchan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Packaging the Sainte-Chapelle Relic Treasury, Paris ca. 1500 Julia Oswald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
VI Phenomenology and Piety
Pilgrimage across Borders: Painted Pilgrim’s Badges in Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts Megan H. Foster-Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
Peripheral Primacy: Metallic Illumination and Material Illusion in the Aussem Hours Susan Barahal and Elizabeth Pugliano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
A Curator’s Note: The Tarnished Reception of Remarkable Manuscripts Lynley Anne Herbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
Index of Manuscripts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511
Index of Places Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	515
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	519

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Art historians, historians, medievalists, curators, art conservators, manuscript scholars
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 510
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 184
Keywords: Medieval art history; manuscript studies; metalwork; manuscripts conservation

eBook

Published: December 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110637526

Hardcover

Published: December 31, 2021
ISBN: 9783110620153