http://www.syndicatemizzou.org Thu, 24 May 2012 09:12:58 GMT en-us 40 Center for eResearch Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activity http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/images/logo.png 384 80 http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/stanton/ipod/Stanton_02.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/stanton/ipod/Stanton_02.m4v The decorations in the first capital letter of each page, as well as those in the margins, tell a story, although this narrative is separate from the words on the page. Such images were more personal and, in Stanton’s opinion, more interesting. “I think it was the pictures that really were intended to pull Queen Isabella through those prayers,” Stanton says. In this way, these tiny images can inform historians about the relationship between vision and prayer. 3 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:06:57 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/stanton/ipod/Stanton_03.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/stanton/ipod/Stanton_03.m4v One of the stories in the margins of Queen Isabella’s book of psalms is an unknown side-tale about Moses. Before he wedded Zipporah and performed the acts for which he is now famous, Moses had married the daughter of the king of Ethiopia. The story that plays out in the tiny marginal images is both tragic and romantic. “I see these as being specifically aimed at a young, actually an adolescent female viewer to keep her turning the pages,” Stanton says. 3 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:09:26 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/smith_mark/ipod/Smith_Mark_9.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/smith_mark/ipod/Smith_Mark_9.m4v As publication became more prominent in the Renaissance, texts also became more trimmed down and broken into easily accessible portions. Dr. Smith addresses this shift and how it affected the medieval source material as well as publication today. 3 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:18:39 GMT