›Versus ad picturas‹ – Text/Image Relation in Greek, Latin and Arabic Poetry

›Versus ad picturas‹ – Text/Image Relation in Greek, Latin and Arabic Poetry: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Michele Cutino, Francesco Stella (eds.) 

 

Book 115 in the Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies series

 

Over the last 30 years, many books, conferences and volumes have been devoted to the relationship between text and image in the Late Antiquity and in the Middle Ages. But there has been little space for poetic texts, which, in addition to the direct or mediated message, also demand the attention of the analyst through the impact of the intertext of the entire Latin poetic tradition, multiplying the levels of meaning and therefore the possibilities of interpretation. In relation to the recognition of the need to consider texts (mental or written) as sources of inspiration for images, we are now in a position to take a further step by applying to medieval culture the concept of iconotext developed by Liliane Louvel (2018) for modern literature. In this vein, the Versus ad picturas conference therefore aims to contribute to the study of the relationship between the images we now call artistic, painted on walls, fabrics, stained glass or parchments, and the verses that often accompany them materially or ideally, and which are now increasingly recognised as essential to their cultural understanding and social framing, in the hope of bringing us closer to the meaning hidden in their combination and the meaning perceived by the commissioners, executors and viewers of the time. 

License

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Peer Review Information

This work has been peer reviewed.

Language

• French

Date published

March 30, 2026

Pages

381

ISBN

• PDF
  9783112212233

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112212233

• Frontmatter
• Dedication
• Contents
• Open Access Transformation of the Series Millennium Studies
• Avant-ProposFrancesco Stella
• Versus ad picturas ? Retour sur la question des tituli en vers du carmen 27 de Paulin de NoleGaëlle Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard
• Vignettes narratives et représentations figurées, le dialogue entre texte et image dans le Carmen Paschale de Sedulius et des ivoires contemporainsBruno Bureau
• Texte et image dans les carmina d’Ennode : les « leçons » des manuscritsCéline Urlacher-Becht
• Interaction des systèmes sémiotiques et combinaison médiale dans les inscriptions de Gaule et d’Italie du v e au viii e siècle : esquisse d’une étudeLuciana Furbetta
• Images et textes dans l’épigraphie métrique de l’Antiquité TardiveGianfranco Agosti
• Versus ad Picturas from Text to Context. The Biblical Tituli of the So–Called Bernowinus Episcopus (MGH PLAC I, 413–414) ReconsideredFrancesco Lubian
• La place de l’image dans la transmission du savoir à l’époque carolingienneEnimie Rouquette
• Cassiodore et la géométrie : le « feuillet Nordenfalk » et la théologie de l’ornementÉric Palazzo
• Pictorial Exegesis and Imagination in the Anonymous Pictor in Carmine (ca. 1200)Greti Dinkova-Bruun
• L’ Icon peregrini. La construction poétique de l’image de Jean Gerson (xv e –xvi e s.)Isabel Iribarren
• Les tituli métriques des fresques de l’église Saint-Georges d’Oberzell sur l’île de Reichenau (IX e –X e siècle)Walter Berschin
• , les tituli du cycle de Sant’Angelo in FormisLucinia Speciale
• Images and Inscriptions in Islamic Art of the Arab World. Some Basic PointsDoris Behrens-Abouseif
• Text and Image, Text as Image: The Beauty of the Book in Byzantine Book EpigramsRachele Ricceri
• Les échos de la Loire dans l’ Hortus deliciarum d’Herrade de HohenbourgRoberto Angelini
• et Sein d’Abraham : deux images allégoriques et poétiques de l’ Hortus deliciarumBéatrice Louys
• L’arbre généalogique du Christ dans l’ Hortus deliciarum (f. 80 v –83 r ). Une illustration exégétique en image, prose et versIlaria Ponti Grimm
• Herrade de Hohenbourg et l’iconotexte médiévalFrancesco Stella