The material aspects of medieval devotion in the Libro de los tres reyes de Oriente
Since a medieval codex is, among other things, a cultural, material object, this paper argues that the handwriting in the document ─given the primacy of vision over the other bodily senses─ has a predominantly visual significance. Based on this premise, the paper offers a study of the visual and tex...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Nueva revista de Filología Hispánica |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.nrfh.colmex.mx:article/3879 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/nrfh/article/view/3879 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | materiality cultural object medieval handwritten matrix devotion Libro de los tres reyes de Oriente materialidad objeto cultural matriz manuscrita medieval devoción |
| Sumario: | Since a medieval codex is, among other things, a cultural, material object, this paper argues that the handwriting in the document ─given the primacy of vision over the other bodily senses─ has a predominantly visual significance. Based on this premise, the paper offers a study of the visual and textual aspects of manuscript K-III-4 of the Libro de los tres reyes de Oriente, and presents it as an excellent example of the material aspects of medieval devotion and of its concrete and symbolic relevance. |
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