Medieval 600

The Psalms and Their Illustration

Summer I Session, 2003
Elizabeth C. Teviotdale
Required Reading Assignments

due May 15

Bailey, Richard N. The Durham Cassiodorus. Jarrow: Jarrow Parish, 1978. [Waldo Library, Reserve: ND3357.D8 B35 1978, 2 hours]

Stevick, Robert D. The Earliest Irish and English Bookarts: Visual and Poetic Forms before A.D. 1000. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, pp. 16-18 and 49-54. [Z107.S74 1994, 2 hours; also in the RRC]

due May 22

Openshaw, Kathleen. “The Symbolic Illustration of the Psalter: An Insular Tradition.” Arte medievale 6 (1992), 41-60. [photocopy available from Dr. T]

due May 27

Brantley, Jessica, “The Iconography of the Utrecht Psalter and the Old English Descent into Hell,” Anglo-Saxon England 28 (1999), 43-63. [Waldo Library, General Stacks: DA152.2.A75; also in the RRC]

due May 29

van der Horst, Koert. “The Utrecht Psalter: Picturing the Psalms of David.” In The Utrecht Psalter in Medieval Art: Picturing the Psalms of David, ed. K. van der Horst et al., pp. 23-84. Tuurkdijk: HES, 1996. [Waldo Library, Rare Book Room: Oversize BX2033.U87 1996; also in the RRC]

due June 5

Henderson, George and T. A. Heslop. “Decoration and Illustration.” In The Eadwine Psalter: Text, Image, and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Canterbury, ed. M. Gibson et al., pp. 25-59. College Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. [Waldo Library, Reserve: ND3357.C3 E24 1992, 2 hours; also in the RRC: ND3357.C3 E241 1992]

Noel, William. “The Utrecht Psalter in England: Continuity and Experiment.” In The Utrecht Psalter in Medieval Art: Picturing the Psalms of David, ed. K. van der Horst et al. pp. 121-65. Tuurkdijk: HES, 1996. [Waldo Library, Rare Book Room: Oversize BX2033.U87 1996; also in the RRC]

Pickwoad, Nicholas and Teresa Webber. “Codicology and Palaeography” In The Eadwine Psalter: Text, Image, and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Canterbury, ed. M. Gibson et al., pp. 4-24. College Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. [Waldo Library, Reserve: ND3357.C3 E24 1992, 2 hours; also in the RRC: ND3357.C3 E241 1992]

Patricia Stirnemann, “Paris, BN, MS lat. 8846 and the Eadwine Psalter” In The Eadwine Psalter: Text, Image, and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Canterbury, ed. M. Gibson et al., pp. 186-92. College Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. [Waldo Library, Reserve: ND3357.C3 E24 1992, 2 hours; also in the RRC: ND3357.C3 E241 1992]

due June 12

Manion, Margaret. “Psalter Illustration in the Très Riches Heures of Jean de Berry.” Gesta 34, 147-61. [Waldo Library, General Stacks: N6280.G4]

Peterson, Elizabeth A. “The Textual Basis for Visual Errors in French Gothic Psalter Illustration.” In The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use, ed. R. Gameson, pp. 177-204. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. [Waldo Library, Reserve: BS68.E375 1994, 2 hours; also in the RRC: BS68.E3751 1994]




The Course

Syllabus
Course Calendar
Required Reading Assignments

On Reserve in Waldo Library
Online Resources
Recent Bibliography on the Iconography of the Individual Psalms

Images from the Utrecht Psalter
Images from the Stuttgart Psalter

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