The Lindisfarne Gospels. New Perspectives. Edited by RichardGameson. Library of the Written Word 57, The Manuscript World 9. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. xxx + 226 pp. 16 colour plates and 62 text illustrations (most colour). £ 127. ISBN 9789004337831.

The article is devoted to ekphrasis, its historical and literary evolution, as well as aspects of its stylistic, cultural, and ideological origins. The research is based on the versatile collection of The Theory and History of Ekphrasis [Teoriya i istoriya ekfrasisa], which contains a number of previously little known texts and theories on ekphrasis, developed in regions with different ethnic and cultural characteristics. The author spares no effort in the examination of this monograph and, using the observations made by various scholars, discerns a similar development process of cross-cultural and cross-aesthetic transformations and transpositions, which, however, adopts divergent paths. Transpositions, the author suggests, occur in the model of a text awaiting a pictorial interpretation. The article concentrates on the ways to present an image anticipated in a written word, and to generate a new text, whose subject and content draw not only on poeticized observations of the source material, but also on metapoetic tales about its creators.

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Spreading the Written Word through Images: The Circulation of The Pilgrim’s Progress via its Illustrations

XVII-XVIII ◽

10.3406/xvii.2010.2490 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 223-246

Author(s):

Nathalie Collé-Bak

Keyword(s):

Pilgrim's Progress ◽

Written Word

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Keeping a Firm and Certain Faith in the Inspired Word

10.1093/oso/9780190882181.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Theodore G. Van Raalte

Keyword(s):

Medieval History ◽

Word Of God ◽

History Of ◽

Written Word ◽

Hypothetical Syllogism

This chapter surveys all of De Verbo Dei Scripto (i.e., Concerning the Written Word of God) in some detail. Significant translated sections are provided. The careful structure followed by Chandieu in this treatise of 1580 will be utilized by him in five further “theological and scholastic” treatises of that decade, and thus this structure is uniquely important. Besides Chandieu’s close adherence throughout to this intricate disputational structure, one also notices his predominant use of the hypothetical syllogism. While the disputational structure is a finely honed arrangement that very likely grows out of classroom disputations with their long medieval history (to be examined in chapter 8), the use of hypothetical syllogisms is a highly unusual element in Chandieu’s works that will be set within the history of the hypothetical syllogistic to determine how “Aristotelian” was its use (in chapter 9).

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