Between text and image: The prayer gestures of saint dominic

Abstract

Based on a limited corpus of three manuscripts dating from the XlVth and XVth centuries, this study proposes to delve into the theoretical question of the relationship between a parallel series of descriptive texts and images which show nine (or fourteen) ways Saint Dominic prayed. This analysis shows the discrepencies between the described and illustrated gestures, then the different ways each manuscript treated them, from one historical moment to another. In any case, it seems that each one of these three series is structured, and that the three are structured in a comparable manner. This syntagmatic and paradigmatic analysis leads to a final question on the sociological and ideological functions of the document, which attempted to provide a means for the religious followers to identify with the saintly founder of their order through ¡mage, voice and gesture.

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