The Illustrated Afterlife of Terence's Comedies (800-1200)

by Beatrice Radden Keefe and University of Zurich

Widely read as school texts, the comedies by the Roman dramatist Terence have come down to us in hundreds of medieval copies. Fourteen of the manuscripts produced between 800 and 1200 were given some kind of illustration. In this volume, Beatrice Radden Keefe explores the semiotics of the imagery found in the earliest illustrated Terence manuscripts, and its relationship to the iconography of comedy and theatre from antiquity. She examines six further...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004463313
• ISBN13: 9789004463318
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 284 Pages