The Salvaged Body in Salvific Texts: A Green Reading of the Non-Humans and Marginalia of a Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 80

聖文中的身／剩體：牛津博德利圖書館MS Douce 80手抄本旁注圖像中非人／廢人的綠色再生閱讀

胡心瑜(Hsin-Yu HU)

《英美文學評論》 37期 (2020/12) Pp. 1-62

https://doi.org/10.6711/REAL.202012_(37).0001

摘要

This paper analyzes the word-image relations in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 80, an anonymous, illuminated Parisian book of hours associated with either the Boucicaut Master or the Bedford Master and his artistic circle in 15th-century France. Taking medieval iconography and reading conventions as its framework, the paper adopts a historicist approach to explain the mechanism of creation of the marginal hybrid monsters and animals in Douce 80, analyzing their roles and significance in shaping the reading experiences of the Manuscript. By doing so, the paper demonstrates how these undesirable grotesque images, with their assumed nonsense and absurdity, are processed and recreated into useful reading aids in the textual environment of the manuscript corpus by a discursive dynamism that circulates between word and image, center and margin, the sacred and the profane, to engage these opposites in a mutually reforming and regenerative exchange in which a piously green desire to conserve, renew, and sustain God's message in the turning of the pages may be detected.

關鍵字

books of Hours ； MS Douce 80 ； marginalia ； word-image relations ； medieval grotesque ； animals ； green

並列摘要

本篇論文檢視現存於牛津博德利圖書館（Oxford, The Bodleian Library），由十五世紀歐洲抄本圖畫名家布希考大師（The Boucicaut Master）或貝德福大師（The Bedford Master）藝術團隊製作之法國時禱書（book of hours）MS Douce 80，分析此抄本頁緣旁注圖像（marginalia）與文字之互動關係。論文在檢視Douce 80時禱書時，依循中世紀文學、藝術史學者建立之圖像研究方法及抄本之創作、閱讀體系與常規，來描述、解釋文字內容與旁注中的怪物及動物圖像，並對這些圖像為何、其所以為何、與文字之間的關聯，以及這些圖像在讀者閱讀時所扮演的功能，提出可能的詮釋。論文在分析解讀圖文的同時，也演繹在抄本頁緣中，那些被視為荒誕無用的非人圖像，如何透過文與圖、中心與邊陲、神聖與褻瀆之間循環不息、彼此更新的論述動能，在抄本的文本環境中與文字相互調議、重塑意義，來保存、傳遞聖經古老的旨意，成為有用的閱讀工具，幫助讀者了解與記憶，並從而一窺中世紀末救贖宗教文化隱含之再造重生的綠色精神與內涵。

並列關鍵字

時禱書 ； DOUCE 80手抄本 ； 旁注 ； 圖文關係 ； 中世紀怪誕圖像 ； 動物 ； 綠

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