Between Reading and Viewing: Mapping and Experiencing Rome and Other Spaces
Klazina Staat
This article focuses on a Carolingian manuscript now kept in the Stiftsbibliothek Einsiedeln (Codex 326 (1076)), containing collection of mostly Rome-centred writings, among others, series walking routes through city (the Itinerarium Einsidlense). The theoretical concepts ‘affordances’ and ‘ergodic’ reading are employed to explore meanings functions its original context use (i.e., monastery). After an analysis particular form written text parchment folio, contextualises affordance by comparing with two other artworks from roughly same time geographical context: Plan St. Gall diagram Church Holy Sepulchre illustrated Adomnán’s De locis sanctis. These sources resemble their ergodic approach writing reading, as well visual meditational affordances. Subsequently, is read wider collection, how dimensions adds understanding meaning function Itinerarium. Thus, highlights importance pay attention physical Latin script place texts larger manuscript, order understand contexts.
Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures