Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England by Catherine E. Karkov - 9780521093064

Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon EnglandNarrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript\nAuthor(s): Catherine E. Karkov\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521093064, 978-0521093064\nSynopsis\nThis 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 manuscript, but both also use formulaic language, iconography and compositions to construct a web of intertextual and intervisual references that open the poems to readings far more diverse than those of the biblical books on which they are based. Together poem.