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Das Gießener Evangeliar und die malerische Gruppe der Kölner Buchmalerei, ed. Klaus Gereon Beuckers and Ursula Prinz. Forschungen zu Geschichte und Literatur des Mittelalters. 9. Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2023, 456 pp., 186 ill

Klaus Gereon Beuckers, Das Kölner Kaiserinnen-Evangeliar W 312: ein ottonisches Prachtevangeliar im Historischen Archiv der Stadt Köln. Forschungen zu Kunst, Geschichte und Literatur des Mittelalters. 11, Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2024, 232 pp., 103 ill.

by Heather McCune Bruhn (Author)
4 Pages
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Journal: Mediaevistik Volume 39 Issue 1 Publication Year 2026 pp. 367 - 370

Summary

The Ottonian period of the 10th and 11th centuries was one of the most important for manuscript production, and Cologne was one of the greatest centers, along with Trier and Reichenau. The two volumes reviewed here come from a group of seven interdisciplinary volumes from a lengthy research study spearheaded by Klaus Gereon Beuckers on the “painterly group” (Malerische Gruppe), which represents some of the most important Ottonian manuscripts produced in Cologne.

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4
DOI
10.3726/med.2026.01.80
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2026 (August)
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Heather McCune Bruhn (Author)

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Title: Das Gießener Evangeliar und die malerische Gruppe der Kölner Buchmalerei, ed. Klaus Gereon Beuckers and Ursula Prinz. Forschungen zu Geschichte und Literatur des Mittelalters. 9. Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2023, 456 pp., 186 ill