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In Our Founder's Image: Cult and Identity in Ottonian Manuscript Portraits of Saints

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Abstract

The decades immediately before and after the year 1000 in Ottonian Germany witnessed the creation of unprecedented numbers of illuminated manuscript scenes portraying medieval donors along with devotional figures. A much less common occurrence, however, were scenes portraying the foundational saints at the origin of the monastic community whose scriptorium had executed the same manuscripts. This contribution sheds light on one such a scene in a key liturgical manuscript from the Abbey of Sankt Gallen – a centuries-old institution at a transformational point in its history.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRomanesque and the Year 1000
EditorsGerhard Lutz, John McNeill, Richard Plant
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter6
Pages73-84
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781003571476
ISBN (Print)9781032945705, 9781032945712
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31-Mar-2025

Publication series

NameThe British Archaeological Association Romanesque Transactions
PublisherRoutledge

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