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The Gothic Visionary Perspective (Hardcover)
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The Gothic Visionary Perspective (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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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 most important moments in
this Gothic visionary perspective. The author first follows the
history of Apocalypse commentaries from Bede to Alexander of
Bremen, focusing particularly on twelfth-century interpretation of
Revelation as a spiritual guidebook for the contemporary Christian.
She shows that innovative interpretations in these texts have
parallels in the cathedral art of St.-Denis and Chartres, the
illuminations for later medieval illustrated Apocalypses, and the
invention of new "anagogical" literary modes. Professor Nolan's
close study of the Vita Nuova indicates that in his earliest work
Dante used a prophetic voice and a graded series of visions to
shape his conventional love story into a book of revelation.
Examination of the thirteenth-century spiritual quest reveals that
French writers, transforming older monastic forms, gave new
importance to the process of conversion by way of vision. Pearl and
Piers Plowman participate in the tradition of the spiritual quest
even as Piers marks a final moment in its history. Originally
published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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