{"id":1512,"date":"2012-10-18T21:21:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T21:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hartdoctors.com\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2012-10-18T21:21:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T21:21:07","slug":"elizabeth-moodey-presents-paper-at-manuscript-studies-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2012\/10\/elizabeth-moodey-presents-paper-at-manuscript-studies-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Moodey Presents Paper at Manuscript Studies Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jean Mi\u00e9lot (active 1448-ca. 1468), a translator and compiler who also devised the illustrated scratch copies that determined a book\u2019s layout, was the most visual of the small army of scribal talents creating manuscripts for Philip the Good and the Burgundian court. Mi\u00e9lot was the focus of a paper, Towards a Portrait of a Late Medieval Mastermind: Jean Mi\u00e9lot<\/em>, presented by Elizabeth Moodey, assistant professor of history of art, at the Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies held October 12-13 at Saint Louis University. <\/p>\n

Although Paul Perdrizet worked admirably to establish Mi\u00e9lot\u2019s oeuvre (in a foundational article published in 1907), his assessment of his subject\u2019s skills—\u201cm\u00e9diocre copiste et encore plus m\u00e9diocre enlumineur\u201d—was disparaging. Working for Philip the Good, one of the greatest bibliophiles of the fifteenth century, Mi\u00e9lot was at the top of his profession. \u201cLiterary and art historical scholarship on Mi\u00e9lot has been channeled toward either his words or his images, which not only misses the richness of his activities but also leaves out crucial decorative and didactic elements in the illustrations he provided, such as figural diagrams and fantastic initials\u2014work that lies between words and images,\u201d said Moodey. \u201cThese elements often fail to catch the attention of art historians because they are not strictly figural, and likewise escape the eye of literary historians because they are not strictly textual.\u201d <\/p>\n

Moodey referred to Mi\u00e9lot\u2019s so-called Commonplace Book (Paris, Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France, MS fr. 17001), in which he collected designs and worked out translations. She noted that, as well as continuing to slight an unusually inventive talent, \u201cwe have been imposing modern notions of artist<\/em> and editor<\/em> and author<\/em> on these figures in late-medieval bookmaking, and that the evidence points to something rather different.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, founded in 1974, is the only conference in North America dedicated strictly to manuscript topics. The two-day program offered sessions on a variety of themes relating to paleography, codicology, illumination, book production, and library history, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jean Mi\u00e9lot (active 1448-ca. 1468), a translator and compiler who also devised the illustrated scratch copies that determined a book\u2019s layout, was the most visual of the small army of scribal talents creating manuscripts for Philip the Good and the Burgundian court. Mi\u00e9lot was the focus of a paper, Towards a Portrait of a Late…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hart","category-vrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}