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Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1163/18796583-90000884 BibTeX citation key: 2012 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: "Bible", Adaptation, Early forms of comics, Memoria, Middle Ages Creators: Doležalová Collection: Daphnis |
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After an overview of late medieval Latin biblical mnemonic tools with a special attention to those transmitted in Bohemia, the study moves to an analysis of the most singular biblical retelling from Bohemia, the Biblia picta Velislai (Velislav bible) from ca. 1340. While this “biblical comics” displays many inconsistencies both in its visual and textual aspects (e.g., there are only nine precepts of the Decalogue included), the author argues that such features were quite common during the Middle Ages and did not exclude its use for education and meditation. Like substantially later Manualník by Jan Amos Komenský (1623, printed 1658), the main aim of this and other biblical retellings was the moral edification of the readers.
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