英文摘要 |
This paper analyzes the word-image relations in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 80, an anonymous, illuminated Parisian book of hours associated with either the Boucicaut Master or the Bedford Master and his artistic circle in 15th-century France. Taking medieval iconography and reading conventions as its framework, the paper adopts a historicist approach to explain the mechanism of creation of the marginal hybrid monsters and animals in Douce 80, analyzing their roles and significance in shaping the reading experiences of the Manuscript. By doing so, the paper demonstrates how these undesirable grotesque images, with their assumed nonsense and absurdity, are processed and recreated into useful reading aids in the textual environment of the manuscript corpus by a discursive dynamism that circulates between word and image, center and margin, the sacred and the profane, to engage these opposites in a mutually reforming and regenerative exchange in which a piously green desire to conserve, renew, and sustain God’s message in the turning of the pages may be detected. |