Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/2004 - 8/31/2004

Funding Totals

$5,000.00 (approved)
$5,000.00 (awarded)


The History of Reading and the Aeneid in the Visual Arts

FAIN: FT-52931-04

James Arthur Rushing
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden (Camden, NJ 08102-1405)

The project traces the history of iconographic responses to the Aeneas material from Late Antiquity into the Late Middle Ages, in an effort to explore the role of visual images in the history of Latin and vernacular literacies and the history of reading.