The 'Painting' of Writing: The Iconicity of Writing and Word Pictures in Latin Psalter Manuscripts Used in Religious Rituals (B09*)

该项目使用一系列可追溯到8世纪至15世纪的诗篇手稿，研究了文字的装饰性和图像渲染以及所谓的“文字图片”在手稿的仪式使用中所起的作用。在不断变化的制造和使用实践的背景下，这一分析为这些现象提供了一种新的方法，这些现象是中世纪欧洲手稿文化的特征，超越了存在于文字和图片之间的经典二分法。

Using a series of psalter manuscripts dating from between the 8th and 15th century, this project examines the role played by the ornamental and pictorial rendering of writing and by so-called ¿word pictures¿ in the ritual use of manuscripts. In the context of changing practices of manufacture and use, this analysis provides a new approach to these phenomena, which are characteristic of medieval European manuscript culture and transcend the classic dichotomy that exists between writing and pictures.