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Author:   Renana Bartal
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9781138352698

ISBN 10:   1138352691
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   21 November 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction A Fourteenth-Century Group of English Apocalypse Illuminators Workshop Practice and the Question of Authorship Compilation and Readership Chapter 1. Seeing with Spiritual Eyes: The Pepys Apocalypse A Workshop Model Seeing with ‘Spiritual Eyes’ Eucharistic Devotion and Bridal Mysticism ‘Le bon prelat’ The Pepys Apocalypse and the Cura Monialium Conclusion Chapter 2. A Book Designed for a Lady: The Selden Apocalypse The Owner of the Book A Book for Teaching The Illuminator as Compiler A Literal Apocalypse Tying Évangile to Apocalypse: Alpha and Omega Conclusion Chapter 3. Knowledge and Ascent: The Brussels Apocalypse The Lumere as lais Knowledge and Ascent ‘Seint Pol le apostre’ and the Moral Emphasis Close Relations The Brussels Apocalypse as an Exemplar and Mental Substitute for a Lost Image More Images in the Margins Conclusion Chapter 4. Concluding Remarks: The Care of Souls and the Artist as Author Diverse Readers and the Care of Souls Customized Practices and Questions of Authorship Bibliography Index

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By interrogating difference rather than seeking similarities, this study offers a valuable new perspective on the later English Apocalypse tradition. It challenges perceptions of illuminators as rude craftsmen, highlights the cultural patronage and intellectual interests of a diverse range of fourteenth-century audiences, and explores the multiple textual, social, devotional and pastoral contexts in which fourteenth-century Apocalypse manuscripts can be sited with great insight and expertise. --Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

By interrogating difference rather than seeking similarities, this study offers a valuable new perspective on the later English Apocalypse tradition. It challenges perceptions of illuminators as rude craftsmen, highlights the cultural patronage and intellectual interests of a diverse range of fourteenth-century audiences, and explores the multiple textual, social, devotional and pastoral contexts in which fourteenth-century Apocalypse manuscripts can be sited with great insight and expertise. --Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture Bartal's contribution has immense value in that it turns a close, even microscopic lens on a group of little-studied manuscripts that, despite their restricted geographic scope, their shared pool of illuminators, and their less-than-luxurious production values, illustrate the sheer variability of devotional book production and consumption in one small region of Europe in the fourteenth century. --Studies in Iconography

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Renana Bartal is Senior Lecturer in the Art History department at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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