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A 7 page research paper that addresses the role that these books played in medieval culture. The writer argues that modern readers tend to look at medieval art and culture and interpret it according to a modern perspective. However, this is frequently not the case, as the medieval worldview differs markedly from a contemporary perspective. Nowhere is this more evident than the role that illuminated manuscripts, and books in general, played within medieval society. This examination of medieval illuminated manuscript production, focusing on depictions of the Apocalypse of St. John, illustrates this point. The last two pages of this research pertain to parchment paper production. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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case, as the medieval worldview differs markedly from a contemporary perspective. Nowhere is this more evident than the role that illuminated manuscripts, and books in general, played within medieval society.
The following examination of medieval illuminated manuscript production, focusing on depictions of the Apocalypse of St. John, illustrates this point. Manuscript illumination in the Middle Ages The Apocalypse, that
is, the Book of Revelation, was a "powerful" and "pervasive" presence in the discourse of medieval culture (Lewis, 1995, p. 1). Illuminated manuscripts, as a book of images, gained in
cultural significance during the last three centuries known as the Gothic period, which was also a period marked by greatly increased rate of manuscript production. In the thirteenth century, illumination
ceased to be the sole province of monasteries (Brehier, 2003). As the taste for illuminated manuscripts spread, so did the use of lay illuminators. These artists were no longer satisfied
with simply ornamenting the initial letter on a page, but rather began producing "Picture Bibles" that consisted of a continuous series of illuminated miniatures (Brehier, 2003). More than half
the illustrated manuscripts of the Apocalypse that have survived the Middle Ages belong to the distinctive Gothic tradition that originated in England in the mid-thirteenth century (Lewis, 1995). Eighty-three manuscripts
survive from this "last and most extraordinary expansion of the medieval Apocalypse cycles" (Lewis, 1995, p. 1). Illustrated Gothic Apocalypses have been analyzed and studied since they were introduced
in a groundbreaking study that was conducted by Delisle and Meyer almost a century ago (Lewis, 1995). Bal (1989) points out that the images in illuminated manuscripts are "readings," which
function in the same way as sermons: not a re-telling of the text but a use of it; not an illustration but, ultimately a new text" (p. 291). In other
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