The construction of sanctity: pictorial hagiography and monastic reform in the first illustrated Life of St. Cuthbert (Oxford University College MS 165)

• Autores: Magdalena Elizabeth Carrasco
• Localización: Studies in iconography, ISSN 0148-1029, Nº. 21, 2000, págs. 47-89
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An examination of Oxford University's illustrated manuscript Life of St. Cuthbert, which can be dated to about 1100 in Durham. The writer asserts that the drawings in this work form a pictorial commentary on Bede's text, and that the decision to create an elaborate pictorial hagiography for St. Cuthbert must be understood in the context of the post-Conquest reform at Durham. She goes on to consider several images from the work in detail, with special bearing on the ideals of monastic life as embodied in the hagiographic personality of St. Cuthbert, as reinterpreted at the end of the 11th century by the newly reformed community at Durham.