Illustrating the Apocalypse

MDVL 6000
Spring 2006

Required Readings

For discussion on:

January 18

“Apocalypse.” In The Holy Bible Translated from the Latin Vulgate. Rockford: Tan Books, 2000. (Online version at http://www.drbo.org/)

January 23

McGinn, Bernard. “Introduction: John’s Apocalypse and the Apocalyptic Mentality.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 3-19. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

January 25

Fredriksen, Paula. “Tyconius and Augustine on the Apocalypse.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 20-37. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

January 30

Matter, E. Ann. “The Apocalypse in Early Medieval Exegesis.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 38-50. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

February 1

Lerner, Robert E. “The Medieval Return of the Thousand-Year Sabbath.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 51-71. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

February 6

Daniel, E. Randolph. “Joachim of Fiore: Patterns of History in the Apocalypse.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 72-88. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

February 8

Burr, David. “Mendicant Readings of the Apocalypse.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 89-102. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

February 13

Klein, Peter K. “Introduction: The Apocalypse in Medieval Art.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 159-99. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

February 15

Kinney, Dale. “The Apocalypse in Early Christian Monumental Decoration.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 200-16. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

February 20

Williams, John. “Purpose and Imagery in the Apocalypse Commentary of Beatus of Liébana.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 217-233. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

March 13

Christe, Yves. “The Apocalypse in the Monumental Art of the Eleventh through Thirteenth Centuries.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 234-58. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

March 15

Lewis, Suzanne. “Exegesis and Illustration in Thirteenth-Century English Apocalypses.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 259-75. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

March 20

Camille, Michael. “Visionary Perception and Images of the Apocalypse in the Later Middle Ages.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 276-89. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

April 3

Emmerson, Richard K. “Introduction: The Apocalypse in Medieval Culture.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 293-332. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

April 5

Flanigan, C. Clifford. “The Apocalypse and the Medieval Liturgy.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 333-51. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

April 10

Morrison, Karl F. “The Exercise of Thoughtful Minds: The Apocalypse in Some German Historical Writings.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 352-73. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

April 12

Szittya, Penn. “Domesday Bokes: The Apocalypse in Medieval English Literary Culture.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 374-97. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

April 17

Herzman, Ronald B. “Dante and the Apocalypse.” In The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn, pp. 398-413. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.