Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript

by Catherine E. Karkov

Book Overview

This book explores the complex interrelationship between texts and drawings in the late tenth or early eleventh-century Junius II manuscript, the only surviving illustrated Anglo-Saxon poetic manuscript. The book, which contains a plate section of sixty-one illustrations, focuses on the way in which the drawings both illustrate the text and translate it into a new visual language. Poems and illustrations work to create a carefully crafted and unified...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521093066
• ISBN13: 9780521093064
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"