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August 29, 2001
C.R. Dodwell Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 171 pp. Cloth $69.95 (0521661889)
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The publication of Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage posthumously honors C. R. Dodwell’s lifelong work on early medieval art. Timothy Graham, formerly Dodwell’s research assistant, considerately saw the book through to press. In this volume, Dodwell considers the origins of the illustrations in Carolingian Terence manuscripts and their possible relationship to illuminations produced at Canterbury or under Canterbury’s influence in the eleventh century. Although its deductions are problematic, this study is nonetheless valuable for...