The Gothic Visionary Perspective

ISBN: 9780691602929 出版年：2015 页码：310 Nolan, Barbara Princeton University Press

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.