
Susanne WittekindUniversity of Cologne | UOC · Institute of Art History
Susanne Wittekind
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The essay is on Carl Nordenfalk, Swedish art historian, medievalist and museologist. The objective is to present his internationally acknowledged professional life and elucidate the circumstances which led him to write his celebrated doctoral dissertation, ‘Die spätantiken Kanontafeln’. This pioneering work contributed immensely to scholarship on t...
In the early Middle Ages canon tables became a visual characteristic and leitmotif of gospel books. When their specific arcade structure was employed in other manuscript contexts in the ninth and tenth centuries, it accordingly referred to the gospels. The framing motif expressed unity in diversity, standing for the testimony and story of the gospe...
Kartulare wurden im Früh-und Hochmittelalter in der Regel von geistlichen Institutionen angelegt. Sie dienten der abschriftlichen Sicherung, Ordnung und Verwaltung ihrer durch Dokumente begründeten Rechtstitel, Güter und Einnahmen. In Katalonien trifft man seit Mitte des 12. Jahrhunderts auf vergleichbare Initiativen der Grafen von Barcelona: Ramon...
A book cover encloses the manuscript inside. If it is elaborate, it distinguishes the manuscript as a precious and valuable object (as a frame does for a painting), all the more so when an old manuscript is clothed in a new and costly cover. In conjunction with added texts and other traces of use, one can grasp from this ‘reframing’ a shift of a te...
A book cover encloses the manuscript inside. If it is elaborate, it distinguishes the manuscript as a precious and valuable object (as a frame does for a painting), all the more so when an old manuscript is clothed in a new and costly cover. In conjunction with added texts and other traces of use, one can grasp from this ‘reframing’ a shift of a te...