Illustrating the Apocalypse

MDVL 6000
Spring 2006

Online Resources

http://www.medievalarthistory.co.uk/Apocalypse_Project.html (Resources on medieval illuminated apocalypse manuscripts developed at the University of Cambridge and © 2004 by Nancy Ross)

http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=1574 (Low-resolution images of all pages of the Dyson Perrins Apocalypse © 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust)

http://architecture.relig.free.fr/apocalypse1.htm (Web page devoted to the Angers Apocalypse, originally a series of 105 individual tapestries illustrating the Apocalypse created in the years 1377-80)

http://www.monum.fr/prehome/prehome.dml (A well-illustrated, if melodramatic, video presentation of the Angers Apocalypse. Click on “Enter,” then “Angers,” then “Voir le minisite,” and finally “La Tenture d’Apocalypse”)

http://lib-266.library.nd.edu/index.html (A database of facsimiles of medieval manuscripts in the University of Notre Dame Libraries)

http://www.library.nd.edu/medieval_library/new_books.shtml (A Web site devoted to a cache of facsimiles of Spanish Beatus manuscripts acquired by the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame in 2005)

http://www.nd.edu/~medvllib/facsimiles.html (“Medieval Manuscripts in Facsimile,” based on a 1997 exhibit prepared by Dr. Marina Smyth, Librarian of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame, with the assistance of Catherine Kavanagh and Kathleen Tonry, graduate students in the Medieval Institute. Click on “The Apocalypse”)

http://www.apocalyptic-theories.com/theories/bede/bede.html (Online version of Edward Marshall’s translation of Bede’s commentary on the Apocalypse with links to the biblical text; from Apocalyptic Ideas in Old English Web site developed by Carolin Esser)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/ (Apocalypse! The Evolution of Apocalyptic Belief and How It Shaped the Western World, PBS Frontline Web site © 1995-2005 WGBH educational foundation)

http://www.drbo.org/lvb/ (Online edition of the Latin Vulgate Bible © DRBO.ORG 2004)

http://www.drbo.org/ (Online edition of the “Douay-Rheims Bible,” an English translation of the Latin Vulgate © DRBO.ORG 2004)

http://www.wmich.edu/library/visual/index.php (Home page of Western Michigan University’s Visual Resources Library)

http://ica.princeton.edu/ (Founded in 1917, the Index of Christian Art is a resource based at Princeton University)

http://www.medievalart.org/resources/ (The International Center of Medieval Art’s page of Web links)

http://www.the-orb.net (The ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies)

http://www.netserf.org (Self-proclaimed as “the internet connection for medieval resources,” NetSERF is an annotated directory of Web sites on medieval topics.)

http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/history/medbib.htm (Yale University Library annotated bibliography on Medieval Studies)

http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/hum/medieval.html (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries pathfinder on medieval studies)

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1a.html (The Internet Medieval Sourcebook Web site on studying history)

http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu (The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies, © 1994-2002, Martin Irvine and Deborah Everhart, Georgetown University: a directory of Web sites on medieval topics)