Darstellungen zu den Büchern Samuhel, Könige und Chronik in romanischen Bibelhandschriften

In the 12 th century Bible illumination became widely popular in
european art. Taking six old testament books (the four books of
King and two Chronics) as examples the following thesis is an
iconographic study which focuses on the relationship between
pictures of French, English, German, Italian and Spanish
manuscripts. The aim was to find out which role had older
pictorical models, spontaneous artistic creations, the text of the
Bible and other liturgical manuscripts, as well as the use of the
history of King David in political discussions in the process of
image finding.