Behold the House of the Lord: Encountering Architecture in the Codex Amiatinus
This chapter examines the eighth-century Codex Amiatinus, a manuscript whose text of the Bible is accompanied by a series of complex miniatures. Focusing in particular on its elaborate representation of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness, Meg Boulton argues
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Architectural Space and the Imagination
Jane Griffiths · Adam Hanna Editors
Architectural Space and the Imagination Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary
Editors Jane Griffiths Wadham College University of Oxford Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Adam Hanna School of English and Digital Humanities University College Cork Cork, Ireland
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Contents
Christina’s World Jane Griffiths
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Introduction Jane Griffiths and Adam Hanna
Part I Foundations 2
Bifurcated Thought: Reflections on Inventive Thinking Andrew Lanyon
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Murmuring Houses for the Mythical Mind Christian Illies
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The House of the Senses: Experiencing Buildings with Peter Zumthor and Pliny the Younger Martin Düchs and Sabine Vogt
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CONTENTS
Part II Reading Literary Architectures 5
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Behold the House of the Lord: Encountering Architecture in the Codex Amiatinus Meg Boulton
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Placing the Dead: Architectural Imagination and Posthumous Identity in Medieval France Helen Swift
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Domestic Devotion: Representing Household Space in Late Medieval Religious Writing Aparna Chaudhuri
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‘Drawd Too Architectooralooral’: Charles Dickens, the Bildungsroman and the Spatial Imagination Ushashi Dasgupta
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Spaces of the A-Temporal: Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and the Early Modern Imagination Jelena Todorovi´c
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