By Jennifer P. Kingsley
Few artistic endeavors higher illustrate the elegance of eleventh-century portray than the manuscript sometimes called the “precious gospels” of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim, with its odd mixture of class and naïveté, its dramatically gesturing figures, and the saturated colours of its densely ornamented surfaces. within the Bernward Gospels, Jennifer Kingsley deals the 1st interpretive learn of the pictorial application of this famed manuscript and considers how the gospel booklet conditioned modern and destiny audience to recollect the bishop. The codex constructs a posh snapshot of a minister taking care of his diocese not just via a lifetime of carrier but in addition by way of his unparalleled inventive patronage; of a bishop exercise the sacerdotal authority of his workplace; and of a guy essentially preoccupied along with his personal salvation and wish to unite with God via either his sight and contact. Kingsley insightfully demonstrates how this well known member of the early medieval episcopate offered his position to the saints and to the groups referred to as upon to recollect him.
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