
The Book of Kells
Its Function and Audience
Carol Ann Farr(Author)
University of Toronto Press
Will be published approx. on 7. February 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-0-8020-8157-5 (ISBN)
Description
Created between the seventh and ninth centuries AD, The Book of Kells is one of the great cultural icons of the medieval West. In the past, it has received a great deal of popular and scholarly attention, but only recently has its labyrinth of meaning and references begun to be explored.
In "The Book of Kells: Its Function and Audience," Carol Ann Farr builds on the work of liturgists, palaeographers, historians, and art historians to go beyond basic analysis to place The Book of Kells in the wider context of use and audience.
Farr situates The Book of Kells as part of an evangelical tradition that used the physical appearance of the gospels as a tool of conversion. By examining the manuscript in its political, social, historical, and religious contexts, she provides a fresh perspective on this most famous of insular illuminated texts. In particular, Farr offers new and convincing readings of two of the most difficult images, the 'Temptation' and so-called 'Arrest'.
In "The Book of Kells: Its Function and Audience," Carol Ann Farr builds on the work of liturgists, palaeographers, historians, and art historians to go beyond basic analysis to place The Book of Kells in the wider context of use and audience.
Farr situates The Book of Kells as part of an evangelical tradition that used the physical appearance of the gospels as a tool of conversion. By examining the manuscript in its political, social, historical, and religious contexts, she provides a fresh perspective on this most famous of insular illuminated texts. In particular, Farr offers new and convincing readings of two of the most difficult images, the 'Temptation' and so-called 'Arrest'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 176 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
562 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-8157-5 (9780802081575)
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Person
Carol Ann Farr is a member of the Department of Art and Art History, University of Alabama in Huntsville.