Overview
This book is a study of the programmatic oral performance of the written word and its impact on art and text. Communal singing and reading of the Latin texts that formed the core of Christian ritual and belief consumed many hours of the Benedictine monk's day. These texts-read and sung out loud, memorized, and copied into manuscripts-were often illustrated by the very same monks who participated in the choir liturgy. The meaning of these illustrations sometimes only becomes clear when they are read in the context of the texts these monks heard read. The earliest manuscripts of Cîteaux, copied and illuminated at the same time that the new monastery's liturgy was being reformed, demonstrate the transformation of aural experience to visual and textual legacy.
Full Product Details
Author: Diane Reilly
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Imprint: Amsterdam University Press
Edition: 0
Volume: 5
ISBN: 9789462985940
ISBN 10: 9462985944
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 14 August 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Adult education
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Professional & Vocational
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Reilly's exemplary interdisciplinary work demonstrates how monastic artists and liturgists made tangible links between what they heard, painted, and read, and it shows how these connections shaped the religious experience of early Cistercian monks. - Martha G. Newman, The University of Texas at Austin, Speculum, 96/1, January 2021 This book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the spiritual project that animated the early life of Citeaux, founded in 1098. - Monica Brinzei, sehepunkte.de, May 2019. Read the full review online This volume contributes to our understanding of the liturgical and mental world of the early Cistercian monks and to the oral and aural community associated with early Citeaux... It is a welcome contribution. - Constance Hoffman Berman, Mediaevistik 32, 2019 Diane J. Reilly's study provides a productive interpretation of familiar material, not by applying new methodologies but rather by insisting on the importance of the liturgy as the context for and within which these manuscripts were made. - Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Medium AEvum, Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 2, 2019
This book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the spiritual project that animated the early life of C teaux, founded in 1098. - Monica Br nzei, *sehepunkte.de*, May 2019. Read the full review [online](http://www.sehepunkte.de/2019/05/32665.html).
Author Information
Diane Reilly is Associate Professor of Art History at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her first book, The Art of Reform in Eleventh-Century Flanders: Gerard of Cambrai, Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Saint-Vaast Bible (Brill, 2006) explored connections between art, politics and monastic reform.
