Chapter 1 Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages

Chapter 2 Word and Image as a Field of Research: Sound Methodologies or just a Fashionable Trend? A Polemic from a European Perspective

Chapter 3 Writing—Speech—Image: The Competition of Signs

Chapter 4 The Shield as a Poetic Screen: Early Blazon and the Visualization of Medieval German Literature

Chapter 5 Written Communication in the Illustrated Epic Poem

Chapter 6 The Fluid Text: Observations on the History of Transmission and Textual Criticism of the Thirteenth-Century Courtly Epic

Chapter 7 Images at the Interface: Orality, Literacy, and the Pictorialization of the Roland Material

Chapter 8 Visualizing Performance? Music, Word, and Manuscript

Chapter 9 The “Various Writings of Humanity”: Johannes Tauler on Hildegard of Bingen’s Liber Scivias

Chapter 10 Scripture, Vision, Performance: Visionary Texts and Medieval Religious Drama

Chapter 11 The Logos in the Press: Christ in the Wine-Press and the Discovery of Printing