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Apocalypse in the Middle Ages

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ISBN-10: 0801495504

ISBN-13: 9780801495502

Edition: 1993

Authors: Richard Emmerson, Bernard McGinn

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This richly interdisciplinary collection of 17 essays by an impressive array of medievalists offers an overview of the influence of the Apocalypse on the shaping of the Christian culture of the Middle Ages. Each one focuses on some aspect of John's great visionary text, specifically analyzing its interpretation, representation, and manipulation in medieval culture, history, religion, art, and literature. The book is divided into three sections. In the first part, six scholars of medieval history and thought detail the development of interpretations of the Book of Revelation from the earliest work of Tyconius and Augustine to the Franciscan and Dominican explanations of the later Middle…    
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Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 2/4/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English

Bernard McGinn, Naomi Shenstone Donnelly Professor of Historical Theology and History of Christianity at the University of Chicago, is the author of many books, including Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages(Columbia).

Abbreviations
Preface
The Apocalypse in Medieval Thought
Introduction: John's Apocalypse and the Apocalyptic Mentality
Tyconius and Augustine on the Apocalypse
The Apocalypse in Early Medieval Exegesis
The Medieval Return to the Thousand-Year Sabbath
Joachim of Fiore: Patterns of History in the Apocalypse
Mendicant Readings of the Apocalypse
The Apocalypse in Medieval Art Illustrations
Introduction: The Apocalypse in Medieval Art
The Apocalypse in Early Christian Monumental Decoration
Purpose and Imagery in the Apocalypse Commentary of Beatus of Liebana
The Apocalypse in the Monumental Art of the Eleventh through Thirteenth Centuries
Exegesis and Illustration in Thirteenth-Century English Apocalypses
Visionary Perception and Images of the Apocalypse in the Later Middle Ages
The Apocalypse in Medieval Culture
Introduction: The Apocalypse in Medieval Culture
The Apocalypse and the Medieval Liturgy
The Exercise of Thoughtful Minds: The Apocalypse in Some German Historical Writings
Domesday Bokes: The Apocalypse in Medieval English Literary Culture
Dante and the Apocalypse
Contributors
Name Index
Index of Biblical Citations