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Article: Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius II Manuscript. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2003
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Catherine E. Karkov. Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius II Manuscript. (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 225. S69.95. ISBN 0-521-80069-2.
In this recent addition to the Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England series, Catherine Karkov examines the relationship between text and picture in the Junius II manuscript, the only one of four English poetic manuscripts to be illustrated. Despite the fact that only approximately a third of the intended drawings were ever completed, Karkov sets out to show that not only was the manuscript envisioned as a unified ...