Myth, montage, & visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript culture

Contents: The cinematic experience (Iconography in the age of mechanical reproduction); Constructing masculinities; Envisioning desire; Engendering violence; Visualizing rethorics.
In Myth, Montage, and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture Marilynn Desmond and Pamela Sheingorn analyze the ways in which Othea manuscripts display classical myths for late medieval humanist, chivalric, and Christian readers. Desmond and Sheingorn´s innovative study draws extensively on film theory and its notions of spectatorship to explore the ethical implications of viewing illustrated manuscripts for the medieval reader. Focusing particularly on the twin manuscripts of the Othea in the Duke´s manuscript and the Queen´s manuscript, the authors suggest that pre-modern and post-modern cultures share a predilection for the cinematic arrangement of knowledge in a montage format in which meaning derives from unexpected juxtapositions.