Monogrammatic Culture in Pre-Carolingian Europe
Ildar H. Garipzanov
Abstract This chapter first examines various material media manifesting the use of monograms as signs authority for early medieval kings and bishops visual tokens social status sixth- seventh-century elites. It also surveys functional usage invocational cruciform devices, christograms, sign cross on artefacts manuscripts, both in Christian East Latin West. The final section analyses impact late antique monogrammatic culture evolving discourse extralinguistic qualities letters symbolic significance their characteristics appearance lettering manuscripts. importance this cultural tradition origins ‘monogrammatic initials’—initials that were composed several combined manner a monogram—a new phenomenon characteristic graphicacy.
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