Latin Verse Inscriptions in Anglo-Saxon Art
Elizabeth C Teviotdale
This article identifies the corpus of surviving Anglo-Saxon works art with newly composed Latin verse inscriptions: nineteen paintings and drawings in seven manuscripts, one carved stone, engraved portable altar. A significant flourishing practice including is associated Benedictine monastic reform movement mid-tenth century. The nature relationship, both denotative spatial, between inscriptions images they accompany explored through examination selected representative examples. It proposed that Anglo-Saxons understood this poetry to be an essentially written visual form, not oral one, that, even as quality declined during course late period, presentation remained sophisticated.
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