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T1 The Apotropaic Function of Celtic Knotwork in the Book of Kells
A1 González Hernández, Diego
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Book of Kells - Ilustraciones
K1 Iluminación de libros y manuscritos - Irlanda
AB There is a large volume of published studies on the Book of Kells. Naturally acclaimed for its exceptionally elaborate decoration, so far, however, there has been little discussion on its knotwork, its intricacy being perhaps too difficult to conceptualise. The first serious analyses on the structure of Celtic knotwork date back to Allen and Bain in the first half of the 1900s; those on its function only include James Trilling’s “Medieval Interlace” (1995), which anticipated its specific apotropaic function beyond the merely decorative. Through a revision of the iconography of both full-page portraits and illustrations and an analysis of their knotwork panels, this dissertation will suggest that knotwork in the Book of Kells (or the book itself, for that matter) may have been thought to perform an apotropaic function of protection from evil, for the reader, the community or the book itself, either through individual contemplation or public display
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/14689
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/14689
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 29-abr-2024