The Illustrated Afterlife of Terence’s Comedies (800–1200)
Seiten
2021
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-46331-8 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-46331-8 (ISBN)
This is a book about Roman comedy, ancient theatre imagery, and seven medieval illustrated manuscripts of Terence’s six Latin comedies. These manuscript illustrations, made between 800 and 1200, enabled their medieval readers to view these comedies as “mirrors of life”.
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 manuscripts to show how later illustrators abandoned this imagery to varying degrees, finding new emphases and creating new layers of meaning. Illustrators of Terence, it is demonstrated here, brought a range of interests to illustrating the comedies, clarifying their narrative, incorporating social commentary and moralisation, and linking them with Christian allegorical traditions.
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 manuscripts to show how later illustrators abandoned this imagery to varying degrees, finding new emphases and creating new layers of meaning. Illustrators of Terence, it is demonstrated here, brought a range of interests to illustrating the comedies, clarifying their narrative, incorporating social commentary and moralisation, and linking them with Christian allegorical traditions.
Beatrice Radden Keefe, Ph.D. (2008), Courtauld Institute of Art, is a medieval art historian. She teaches at the University of Zurich.
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Image Credits
Abbreviations
Manuscript Repositories
Manuscript Sigla
Editions
Note to the Reader
Introduction
1 Speculum vitae
2 The Manuscripts
1 Dramatist on Trial
1 Portraits
2 Frames
3 Hic
2 Personae
1 Aedicula
2 Scaenae frons
3 Swollen Faces
4 Lascivious Women
3 Sosia Libertus, Davus Servus
1 Doubling
2 Ne quid nimis
3 Mala mens, malus animus
4 Denial of Blame
4 What’s the Getup?
1 Chaerea pro eunucho
2 Habitu mutato
3 Gnathonists
5 Calliopius Recitator
1 Phantom
2 Auctoritate audiebatur
3 Adversaries
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
Illustrations
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.09.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Library of the Written Word - The Manuscript World ; 97 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 602 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-46331-3 / 9004463313 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-46331-8 / 9789004463318 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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