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The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany
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The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany. By Adam S. Cohen. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2000. Pp. xv, 276. $65.00.)
Nobody who has seen the Uta Codex, a masterpiece of Regensburg book art and book construction from around 1025, is ever likely to forget it. Adam Cohen's book on it is very valuable and helps to fill a gap, since it is the first fullscale study of Regensburg art in the 'Ottonian' period since Swarzenski (1901). First of all Cohen discusses the date; here he has steered a marvelous course between historical common sense and the palaeographical big guns. Next he places the book within the context of monastic …
