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 | | Reading Images: Narrative Discourse and Reception in the Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Apocalypse by Suzanne Lewis ISBN-10: 0521479207 ISBN-10: 0-521-47920-7 ISBN-13: 9780521479202 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-47920-2 Hardcover 1995-11-24 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Reading Images focuses on the multi-layered relationships between the textual image and its reader-viewer in the Apocalypse manuscripts produced in England during the thirteenth century, a period of profound changes in the social and cultural fabric. The exponential expansion in the production and dissemination of illuminated manuscripts that occurred at this time provided a critical, cultural mechanism for the creation of new technologies of the self. As the Apocalypse narrative was visualized in pictures, it became a powerful paradigm within which problematic contemporary experiences such as anti-Judaism, the later Crusades, and expectations of the world's end could be defined. Reading Images explores the kinds of contemporary mythologies that constitute ideology, a realm in which visual representation becomes an agent rather than a reflector of social change. | ||