Illuminated Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland
Postdoktor i norrøn filologi, Stefan Drechsler, vil lansere sin nye bok på Zoom, onsdag 25. august 2021. Alle er velkommen!
Hovedinnhold
Boklanseringen vil foregå på engelsk.
You are welcome to send an email to stefan.drechsler@uib.no to register in advance for the book launch. The link to the webinar will be provided in advance via email, and the book launch can be joined or left at any time while in progress. The Q&A will be conducted via typing question into the chat-function in Zoom.
About the book launch
Stefan Drechsler’s new book published with Brepols (Belgium) examines the international societal and artistic contexts of book production at the western Icelandic Augustinian monastery at Helgafell (c. 1340–1400) and beyond. By conducting interdisciplinary research that combines methodologies and sources from the fields of Art History, Old Norse-Icelandic manuscript studies, codicology, and Scandinavian history, this book explores both the illuminated manuscripts produced at Helgafell and the cultural and historical setting of the manuscript production. Equally, the book explores the broader European contexts of manuscript production at Helgafell, comparing the similar domestic artistic monuments and relevant historical evidence of Norwich and surrounding East Anglia in England, northern France, and the region between Bergen and Trondheim in western Norway.
The book proposes that most of these workshops are related to ecclesiastical networks, as well as secular trade in the North Sea, which became an important economic factor to western Icelandic society in the fourteenth century. The book thereby contributes to a new and multidisciplinary area of research that studies not only one but several European cultures in relation to similar domestic artistic monuments and relevant historical evidence. It offers a detailed account of this cultural site in relation to its scribal and artistic connections with other ecclesiastical and secular scriptoria in the broader North Atlantic region.
At the virtual book launch, Stefan will provide a brief overview of the book, and will read extracts from two chapters. Furthermore, he will give insights into the writing and publication of the book. Due to generous financial support from two institutions at Universitetet i Bergen (the Bergen Open Research Archive and the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies), the book is also available in Open Access.
Everyone is welcome!
Book available in Open Access at Brepols Online, and for purchase at Brepols.
Discount code: PR_MSSP_270921 (valid until 27 September 2021)
