The Gothic Visionary Perspective /

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Barbara Nolan contends that attitudes toward the meaning of history, prophecy, and vision developed by religious writers of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries fundamentally affected the shape of literary narrative and religious art for two centuries. In these essays, she explores some of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nolan, Barbara, 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1977.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Art gothique.
Art apocalyptique.
Christian art and symbolism > Medieval.
Arts, Gothic.
Apocalyptic art.
ART > Reference.
ART > Performance.
ART > History > General.
apocalyptic art.
Arts gothiques.
Christian art and symbolism > Medieval, 500-1500.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • New directions in twelfth-century spirituality
  • Anagogy, aevum and two later medieval visionary arts
  • The vita nuova: Dante's book of revelation
  • The later medieval spiritual quest: through time to aevum
  • Pearl: a fourteenth-century vision in August
  • Will's dark visions of Piers the Plowman.

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