1st Edition

The Bible and the Printed Image in Early Modern England Little Gidding and the pursuit of scriptural harmony

By Michael Gaudio Copyright 2017
206 Pages 101 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 16 Color & 85 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The first book-length study of the fifteen surviving Little Gidding bible concordances, this book examines the visual culture of print in seventeenth-century England through the lens of one extraordinary family and their hand-made biblical manuscripts. The volumes were created by the women of the Ferrar-Collet family of Little Gidding, who selected works from the family's collection of Catholic... Read more

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction: thinking like a rattle head

Chapter 1: Rend and Repair: print culture, female handiwork, and the making of the concordances

Chapter 2: The word made flesh: thinking incarnationally with scripture

Chapter 3: Between the law and the gospel: thinking figurally with scripture

Appendix: inventory of the known Little Gidding concordances

Bibliography
Index

Biography

Michael Gaudio is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota, USA.

"The visual image and its manipulation through bodily activities and tools seem to provide the crucial in-between, a different form of reading in which the senses are actively employed. The Bible and the Printed Image in Early Modern England thus offers yet another concept of what reading can be, and makes a contribution to the heterogeneous histories of early-modern reading that are so crucial to the study of print culture. ...What is distinctive about this book and what prevents it from fitting into traditional categories of knowledge, is precisely what makes it such a productive example of the potential of print culture."

--CAA Reviews