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From our first ABCs to the Book of Revelations statement that Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, we see the world through our letters. More than just a way of writing, the alphabet is a powerful concept that has shaped Western civilization and our daily lives. In The Letter and the Cosmos, Laurence de Looze probes that influence, showing how the alphabet has served as a lens through which we conceptualize the world and how the world, and sometimes the whole cosmos, has been perceived as a kind of alphabet itself. Beginning with the ancient Greeks, he traces the use of alphabetic letters and their significance from Plato to postmodernism, offering a fascinating tour through Western history.
A sharp and entertaining examination of how languages, letterforms, orthography, and writing tools have reflected our hidden obsession with the alphabet, The Letter and the Cosmos is illustrated with copious examples of the visual and linguistic phenomena which de Looze describes. Read it, and youll never look at the alphabet the same way again.
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LAURENCE DE LOOZE
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
For Aara
From our first ABCs to the Book of Revelations statement that Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, we see the world through our letters. More than just a way of writing, the alphabet is a powerful concept that has shaped Western civilization and our daily lives. In The Letter and the Cosmos, Laurence de Looze probes that influence, showing how the alphabet has served as a lens through which we conceptualize the world and how the world, and sometimes the whole cosmos, has been perceived as a kind of alphabet itself. Beginning with the ancient Greeks, he traces the use of alphabetic letters and their significance from Plato to postmodernism, offering a fascinating tour through Western history.
A sharp and entertaining examination of how languages, letterforms, orthography, and writing tools have reflected our hidden obsession with the alphabet, The Letter and the Cosmos is illustrated with copious examples of the visual and linguistic phenomena which de Looze describes. Read it, and youll never look at the alphabet the same way again.
LAURENCE DE LOOZE is a professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Western Ontario.
Fig. 1. Children climbing up a waterwheel (from Devinez lAlphabet).
Fig. 2. Beginning of the Gospel of Matthew. Arnstein Bible (ca. 1172). British Library Harley 2799, fol. 155r.
Fig. 3. Geoffroy Tory, Champ Fleury (1529), fol. 20r.
Fig. 4. Jesuit college designed by Anton Glonner.
Fig. 5. Thomas Gobert, Trait darchitecture (1690). Letter L for Louis XIV with mirror image, p. 41.
Fig. 6. Johann David Steingruber, Architectural Alphabet (1773). Plate 22.
Fig. 7. Daniel Libeskind, sketch for Danish Jewish Museum, Copenhagen, showing Hebrew word Mitzvah becoming floor plan.
Fig. 8 Alfabetgebouw (Alphabet building), Amsterdam.
Fig. 9. Monumental capitals on Trajans Column, Rome (113 CE).
Fig. 10. The United States Supreme Court, front faade.
Fig. 11 A and B. Gospel of St Mark. Coronation Gospels (court of Charlemagne, 8th cent.). Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: Schatzkammer, Inv. XIII 18, fols 76v and 77r.
Fig. 12. Commentary on the Apocalypse (1047). Beatus of Fernando and Sancha: Madrid, BN Vitrina 142, fol. 6.
Fig. 13. Beatus manuscript. (Spain ca. 1180). New York, Cloisters. Single leaf.
Fig. 14. Pericope manuscript for Easter Sunday. Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbttel (Germany). Cod. Guelf. 84.5 Aug. 2, fol. 41r.
Fig. 15. Lindisfarne Gospels, beginning of the Book of Mathew (ca. 700). British Library, MS Cotton Nero D IV, fol. 25 v.
Fig. 16 Charter of Emperor Henry IV (1067). Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen Stift Kaiserswerth, Urk.
Fig. 17. Charter of Emperor Henry IV (1067), detail.
Fig. 18. Animated alphabet from Charles dAngouleme Book of Hours (14751500); Paris, BnF MS Lat. 1173, fol. 52r.
Fig. 19. The Drogo Sacramentary (8505), opening of Mass for Easter Sunday (D[eu]s). Paris, BnF MS Lat. 9428, fol. 58.
Fig. 20. Beatus vir of St Louis (France, 13th century). Paris, BnF MS Lat. 10525, fol. 85v.
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