Illuminating Metalwork : : Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts / / ed. by Joseph Salvatore Ackley, Shannon L. Wearing.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Ackley, Joseph Salvatore,; Barahal, Susan,; Betancourt, Roland,; Buettner, Brigitte,; Fischer, Beth,; Foster-Campbell, Megan H.,; Garrison, Eliza,; Gearhart, Heidi C.,; Gnisci, Jacopo,; Gorjeltchan, Sasha,; Herbert, Lynley Anne,; Leal, Beatrice,; Oswald, Julia,; Pugliano, Elizabeth,; Rochmes, Sophia Ronan,; Turner, Nancy K.,; Wearing, Shannon L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Ackley, Joseph Salvatore,; Wearing, Shannon L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Sense, Matter, and Medium : New Approaches to Medieval Literary and Material Culture , 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 510 p.)

The presence of gold, silver, and other metals is a hallmark of decorated manuscripts, the very characteristic that makes them “illuminated.” Medieval artists often used metal pigment and leaf to depict metal objects both real and imagined, such as chalices, crosses, tableware, and even idols; the l...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• I Introduction
• Preciousness on Parchment: Materiality, Pictoriality, and
• the Decorated Book
• II Technique
• Surface Effect and Substance: Precious Metals in
• Illuminated Manuscripts
• III Representation
• Metal Labor, Material Conversions: Goldsmiths in the Life of St. Denis and in Parisian Life, ca. 1300
• Copying, Imitation, and Intermediality in Illuminated Ethiopic Manuscripts from the Early Solomonic Period
• The Colors of Metalworks: The Painted Materials of Machinery in Byzantium
• IV Material Translations
• Metal, Materiality, and Maṣāḥif: Ornamentation in Abbasid Qur’ans
• Manuscript as Metalwork: Haptic Vision in Early Carolingian Gospel Books
• A “Multimedia” Manuscript: Metalwork and the Siegburg Lectionary
• Illuminating Luxury: The Gray-Gold Flemish Grisailles
• V Treasuries in Books, Books as Treasuries
• The Golden Spaces of the Uta Codex
• The Matter of Memory: Illuminated Metalwork in the Vita of St. Albinus of Angers
• Packaging the Sainte-Chapelle Relic Treasury, Paris ca. 1500
• VI Phenomenology and Piety
• Pilgrimage across Borders: Painted Pilgrim’s Badges in Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts
• Peripheral Primacy: Metallic Illumination and Material Illusion in the Aussem Hours
• A Curator’s Note: The Tarnished Reception of Remarkable Manuscripts
• Bibliography
• Index of Manuscripts
• Index of Names
• Index of Places
• Subject Index