The Velislav Bible, Finest Picture-Bible of the Late Middle Ages : : Biblia Depicta as Devotional, Mnemonic and Study Tool / / Lenka Panušková.
The Velislav Bible, one of the most beautiful medieval Bohemian manuscripts, is a bible imageé in which pictorial narrative dominates the written word, blending, at the same time, common biblical texts with a local legend about the patron of medieval Bohemia, St. Wenceslas. Deliberating about the ro...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Central European Medieval Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 40 color plates, 50 halftones, 10 line art |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- I. Studying the Velislav Bible / Kernbach, Anna / Panušková, Lenka
- II. Image and Text in the Velislav Bible / Kernbach, Anna / Panušková, Lenka
- III. The Velislav Bible in the Context of Late Medieval Biblical Retellings and Mnemonic Aids / Doležalová, Lucie
- IV. The Books of Genesis and Exodus in the Picture Bibles / Panušková, Lenka
- V. The Life of Antichrist in the Velislav Bible / Cermanová, Pavlína
- VI. The Antichrist Cycle in the Velislav Bible and the Representation of the Intellectual Community / Horníčková, Kateřina
- VII. Ibi predicit hominibus : In Search of the Practical Function of the Velislav Bible / Bartlová, Milena
- VIII. The Velislav Bible: Critical Edition with Commentary / Kernbach, Anna
- Bibliography
- Index