Weapons in the Daily Battle: Images of the Conquest of Evil in the Early Medieval Psalter
Kathleen Openshaw
Illustrations in medieval psalters show varying relationships to the text of Book Psalms. This paper explores a series pictures that rarely illustrate words individual psalms, but reflect instead an important function psalter text—its use as weapon individual's daily penitential battle against sin and evil. It is shown theme develops most strongly expressed early Insular Anglo-Saxon psalters. The phenomenon explored by examination images, supplementary texts, other textual materials from cultural milieu, its development attributed particular characteristics monastic spirituality.
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