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Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition honors Ronald B.
Herzman, SUNY Geneseo Distinguished Teaching Professor of English.
Over more than fifty years Professor Herzman has been a major force
in the promotion of medieval studies within academe and public
humanities. This volume of essays by his colleagues, students, and
friends celebrates Professor Herzmanās outstanding career and
reflects the wide range of his scholarly and pedagogical influence,
from biblical and early Christian topics to Dante, Langland, and
Shakespeare.
With its rich symbolism, complex narrative, and stunning imagery,
the Apocalypse, or Revelation of John, is arguably the most
memorable book in the Christian Bible. In Apocalypse Illuminated,
Richard Emmerson explores how this striking visionary text is
represented across seven centuries of medieval illustrations.
Focusing on twenty-five of the most renowned illustrated Apocalypse
manuscripts, from the earliest extant Carolingian ones produced in
the ninth century to the deluxe Apocalypse made for the dukes of
Savoy and completed in 1490, Emmerson examines not only how they
illustrate the biblical text, but also how they interpret it for
specific and increasingly diverse audiences. He discusses what this
imagery shows us about expectations for the Apocalypse as the year
1000 approached, its relationship to Spanish monasticism on the
Christian-Muslim frontier and to thirteenth-century Joachimist
prophetic beliefs, and the polemical reinterpretations of
Revelation that arose at the end of the Middle Ages. The resulting
study includes historical and stylistic comparisons, highlights
innovative features, and traces iconographic continuities over
time, including the recurring apocalyptic patterns, events,
figures, and motifs that characterize Apocalypse illustrations
throughout the Middle Ages. Gorgeously illustrated and written in
lively and accessible prose, this is a masterful analysis of over
seven hundred years of Apocalypse manuscripts by one of the most
preeminent scholars of medieval apocalypticism.
Approaches to Teaching World Literature 29.
Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN
10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume
surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together
essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text.
Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers,
education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines
will find these volumes particularly helpful.
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