Visual texts in post-Conquest England
Laura Kendrick|Andrew Galloway
Seeing with medieval eyes is impossible for us. Yet we can try to use descriptions of images – ekphrastic passages as “medieval spectacles“ correct the distortions our modern vision. A famous passage from first version Gerald Wales' Topographia Hibernica (Topography Ireland), finished early in 1188, describes notable care illuminations a Gospel Book reputed have been miraculously made nearly 500 years earlier, which says he saw on visit Kildare:
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