Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman StageCambridge University Press, 2000 - 171 من الصفحات This 1999 book is concerned with the pictorial language of gesture revealed in Anglo-Saxon art, and its debt to classical Rome. Reginald Dodwell was an eminent art historian and former Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester. In this, his last book, he notes a striking similarity of both form and meaning between Anglo-Saxon gestures and those in illustrated manuscripts of the plays of Terence. He presents evidence for dating the archetype of the Terence manuscripts to the mid-third century, and argues persuasively that their gestures reflect actual stage conventions. He identifies a repertory of eighteen Terentian gestures whose meaning can be ascertained from the dramatic contexts in which they occur, and conducts a detailed examination of the use of the gestures in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. The book, which is extensively illustrated, illuminates our understanding of the vigour of late Anglo-Saxon art and its ability to absorb and transpose continental influence. |
المحتوى
The Vatican Terence and its model | 1 |
The classical miniatures and the stage | 22 |
Dramatic gestures in the miniatures | 36 |
AngloSaxon gestures | 101 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Abraham actors Adelphoe Andria Anglo-Saxon Art Anglo-Saxon Gestures Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts Anglo-Saxon Textual Illustration Antipho artist Biblioteca Ambrosiana Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Bibliothèque Nationale BL Cotton BN lat British Library Canterbury Carinus Carolingian Chaerea characters Chremes classical Claudius Clitipho Comic mask copy Copyright Davus Demea Demipho depicted Dodwell earlier eleventh century Eunuchus example express fact father figure finger Gebärden Genesis gesture pl Geta gives grief hand Harley Psalter Heauton timorumenos Hecyra Hegio Hexateuch Ibid Illustrating New Comedy illustration to Act indicate Jachmann Jones and Morey Joseph later Lord master Menedemus mistress monks mosaic Moses Nationale de France Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Ohlgren Old English Pamphilus Parmeno Phaedria Philip the Arab Phormio picture play portrayal present gesture Psalm puzzlement Pythias Quintilian Roman stage says scene seen servant slave Sostrata St Benedict supplication Syrus tells Terentian gesture Thais third century Utrecht Psalter Vatican Webster Wegner wife woman Wormald
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 168 - CHIROLOGIA : or the Naturall Language of the Hand. Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures thereof.
الصفحة 168 - Chirologia: or the naturall language of the hand. Composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof. Whereunto is added Chironomia: or, the art of manuall rhetoricke. Consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's, exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life, and civill conversation. With types, or chyrograms : a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument.