{"id":20258,"date":"2025-05-08T05:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=20258"},"modified":"2025-05-08T05:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T05:33:48","slug":"frisbie-2025-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/frisbie-2025-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Frisbie (2025 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah E. Frisbie
\n(Case Western Reserve University<\/em>)<\/h2>\n

Abstract of Paper
\npresented at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies
\n(Kalamazoo, 2025)<\/h3>\n

Session on
\n“Rending the Veil:
\nThe Rupture of Image and Text
\nin Medieval Apocalypse Commentaries”
\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Organized by
\nMildred Budny and Vajra Regan<\/h4>\n

2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies: Program<\/a><\/h4>\n

“In terra et mare<\/em>:
\nConstructing Cosmos
\nin the Beatus of Saint-Sever”<\/h1>\n

Abstract<\/h3>\n

In approximately the year 776, a monk of the monastery of San Martin de Turieno, Beatus of Li\u00e9bana, penned a
\ncomplex commentary on the Biblical apocalypse, now enshrined in thirty-four extant North Iberian manuscripts
\nknown collectively as the Beatus Manuscripts. The Beatus of Saint-Sever (Paris, BnF MS Lat. 8878<\/a>), made in Gascony before 1072, is one of two of these from the French side of the Pyrenees. Folio 119r depicts Revelation 7:1\u20133, in which four angels hold back the four winds, waiting for the righteous to be sealed with God\u02bcs favor before the
\ndestruction of the earth.<\/p>\n

In this paper, I analyze the composite aerial and frontal composition of folio 119r as a manipulation of cosmic space-time. My semiotic approach diverges from prevailing scholarship on the Beatus Manuscripts, which leans on iconography and historiography. Comparing the folio with the writings of Isidore of Seville and the Pseudo-Aristotle and cosmological and creation diagrams, I explore how the folio frames the momentary within the eternal. The folio, I argue, serves as a narrative \u201cblip\u201d that marks the depicted faithful for eternity, and, in turn, marks the readers through their faith. I delve into the disruptive nature of the folio as a reprieve in an apocalyptic narrative which tracks toward destruction, and I consider the ways in which this reprieve is extended to the viewer. In a time rife with fear of the end, this brief moment in the Beatus of Saint-Sever ultimately invites the viewer to participate in the dialectics of creation and destruction, granting meaning to the brevity of human experience.<\/p>\n

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Paris, Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France. D\u00e9partement des Manuscrits. Latin 8878, fol. 119v. Image Public Domain, via ark:\/12148\/btv1b52505441p.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sarah E. Frisbie (Case Western Reserve University) Abstract of Paper presented at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2025) Session on “Rending the Veil: The Rupture of Image and Text in Medieval Apocalypse Commentaries” Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Organized by Mildred Budny and Vajra Regan 2025 International Congress on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20262,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20258\/revisions\/20262"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}