Abstract
A study on the relationship between icons and images in Insular manuscripts. The paper investigates the iconic form of figural representations in Irish and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts produced between the seventh and ninth centuries. It argues that the iconic form of such representations was influenced by pre-Christian native art with its tendency towards abstraction and schematism. Other factor that had a bearing on the iconic appearance of Insular figural representations, as suggested in the paper, were icons brought by ecclesiastics to Ireland and England as well as a rich exegetical tradition on the image.
| Original language | English (Ireland) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 265-286 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Roczniki Humanistyczne |
| Volume | 51 |
| Publication status | Published - 2003 |