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Outlawry In Medieval Literature by Timothy S. Jones (review)

Outlawry In Medieval Literature by Timothy S. Jones (review) Book Reviews Adam S. Cohen's essay, "Magnificence in Miniature: the Case of Early Medieval Manuscripts," seems to subscribe to the idea of "diminutive Middle Ages," but in fact the books discussed here are mainly outsize ones, and the author emphasizes that the mere size was enough to produce an effect verging on the sublime, given that "for the majority of people in the Middle Ages, viewing a gospel book during the Mass was their only experience of books altogether" (p. 81). Margot E. Fassler's essay, "Helgaud of Fleury and the Liturgical Arts: the Magnification of Robert the Pious," deals with the process of the idealization and hagiolatry (that is, in a sense, sublimation) of one of the early Capetian French kings, Robert the Pious, also known as Robert II (972­1031), who, in spite of his having been excommunicated by the Pope over his marriage to a cousin, was apparently an example of many Christian virtues, though hardly successful as a king. Another aspect of medieval sublimity is discussed in Paul Binski's "Reflections on the `Wonderful Height and Size' of Gothic Great Churches and the Medieval Sublime." The essay shows how the tendency toward grandeur and sublimity in medieval http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology University of Illinois Press

Outlawry In Medieval Literature by Timothy S. Jones (review)

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Book Reviews Adam S. Cohen's essay, "Magnificence in Miniature: the Case of Early Medieval Manuscripts," seems to subscribe to the idea of "diminutive Middle Ages," but in fact the books discussed here are mainly outsize ones, and the author emphasizes that the mere size was enough to produce an effect verging on the sublime, given that "for the majority of people in the Middle Ages, viewing a gospel book during the Mass was their only experience of books altogether" (p. 81). Margot E. Fassler's essay, "Helgaud of Fleury and the Liturgical Arts: the Magnification of Robert the Pious," deals with the process of the idealization and hagiolatry (that is, in a sense, sublimation) of one of the early Capetian French kings, Robert the Pious, also known as Robert II (972­1031), who, in spite of his having been excommunicated by the Pope over his marriage to a cousin, was apparently an example of many Christian virtues, though hardly successful as a king. Another aspect of medieval sublimity is discussed in Paul Binski's "Reflections on the `Wonderful Height and Size' of Gothic Great Churches and the Medieval Sublime." The essay shows how the tendency toward grandeur and sublimity in medieval

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JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology – University of Illinois Press

Published: Apr 24, 2013

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