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From the 7th through 12th centuries, medieval Spain, isolated on the Iberian peninsula, developed an artistic tradition distinct from the rest of Europe's. Visigoth and Muslim influences brought a pagan exoticism to Spain's Christian art, particularly in illuminated manuscripts. Early Spanish Manuscript Illumination by John Williams (Braziller; 119 pages; $19.95 hardcover, $9.95 paper) provides illuminations of its own, offering plates from such works as the Beatus Commentary on the Book of Revelation that dazzle the reader with apocalyptic visions of weeping angels and rapacious beasts, saints and sinners, heaven and hell...
Snepp quit the agency in 1976. The CIA charges that he has both violated his secrecy agreement and gone back on a promise to Turner that he would submit his manuscript for clearance. Snepp apparently has broken no law-only his word...
...four volumes-Mark and John-that make up the Gospel Book of Kells. This 8th century work, originally housed in the monastery of Kells in County Meath and later moved to Dublin for safekeeping during Cromwell's rape of Ireland, is the most famous illuminated manuscript in the West...
...have been the product of Irish scribes working in a community vulnerable to the marauding Norsemen on the far, cold Isle of lona. Describing a now lost manuscript whose splendor probably approached that of the Book of Kells, Giraldus Cambrensis, a 12th century scholar, declared: "You will make out intricacies so delicate and subtle, so exact and compact, so full of knots and links, with colors so fresh and vivid, that you might say that all this was the work of an angel, and not of a man." The Book of Kells is and no doubt always will...
...least a few Chinese dissenters have gone much further in rejecting Mao's posthumous influence. One sign: novels and short stories dealing with forbidden themes are now being clandestinely circulated among friends in manuscript form. One such novel is entitled Ah Hsia, the name of its heroine-a hapless working girl who has been ravished by her factory's party boss. Another underground story, The Hunan River Runs Red, tells of a high-living party official whose son drowns himself out of disgust with his father's profligacy and privileged life. An illicit "yellow book"-Chinese slang...