The Illustrated Afterlife of Terence’s Comedies (800–1200)

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Widely read as school texts, the comedies by the Roman dramatist Terence have come down to us in hundreds of medieval copies. Fourteen of the manuscripts produced between 800 and 1200 were given some kind of illustration. In this volume, Beatrice Radden Keefe explores the semiotics of the imagery found in the earliest illustrated Terence manuscripts, and its relationship to the iconography of comedy and theatre from antiquity. She examines six further manuscripts to show how later illustrators abandoned this imagery to varying degrees, finding new emphases and creating new layers of meaning. Illustrators of Terence, it is demonstrated here, brought a range of interests to illustrating the comedies, clarifying their narrative, incorporating social commentary and moralisation, and linking them with Christian allegorical traditions.
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2021
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30 Aug 2021
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978-90-04-46331-8
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26 Oct 2021
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Beatrice Radden Keefe, Ph.D. (2008), Courtauld Institute of Art, is a medieval art historian. She teaches at the University of Zurich.
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Image Credits
Abbreviations
 Manuscript Repositories
 Manuscript Sigla
 Editions
Note to the Reader

Introduction
 1 Speculum vitae
 2 The Manuscripts

1 Dramatist on Trial
 1 Portraits
 2 Frames
 3 Hic

2 Personae
 1 Aedicula
 2 Scaenae frons
 3 Swollen Faces
 4 Lascivious Women

3 Sosia Libertus, Davus Servus
 1 Doubling
 2 Ne quid nimis
 3 Mala mens, malus animus
 4 Denial of Blame

4 What’s the Getup?
 1 Chaerea pro eunucho
 2 Habitu mutato
 3 Gnathonists

5 Calliopius Recitator
 1 Phantom
 2 Auctoritate audiebatur
 3 Adversaries
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
Illustrations
All interested in the medieval reception and illustration of the Latin classics, and of Terence’s comedies in particular.
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