The Shape of Things to Come? Variation and Intervention in Aldred’s Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels

This paper examines Aldred’s response to the gospel text he was glossing through close analysis of his choices of script. The focus is on Aldred’s experimentation with different types of letter-forms and the resultant variation in the realization of the letters. I suggest that these point to Aldred’...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brookes, S
Other Authors: Fernandez Cuesta, J
Format: Book section
Published: De Gruyter 2016