Gender, Piety, and Production in Fourteenth-Century English Apocalypse Manuscripts

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Fourteenth-Century Group of English Apocalypse Illuminators

Workshop Practice and the Question of Authorship

Compilation and Readership

Chapter 1. Seeing with Spiritual Eyes: The Pepys Apocalypse

A Workshop Model

Seeing with 'Spiritual Eyes'

Eucharistic Devotion and Bridal Mysticism

'Le bon prelat'

The Pepys Apocalypse and the Cura Monialium

Conclusion

Chapter 2. A Book Designed for a Lady: The Selden Apocalypse

The Owner of the Book

A Book for Teaching

The Illuminator as Compiler

A Literal Apocalypse

Tying Evangile to Apocalypse: Alpha and Omega

Conclusion

Chapter 3. Knowledge and Ascent: The Brussels Apocalypse

The Lumere as lais

Knowledge and Ascent

'Seint Pol le apostre' and the Moral Emphasis

Close Relations

The Brussels Apocalypse as an Exemplar and Mental Substitute for a Lost Image

More Images in the Margins

Conclusion

Chapter 4. Concluding Remarks: The Care of Souls and the Artist as Author

Diverse Readers and the Care of Souls

Customized Practices and Questions of Authorship

Bibliography

Index

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• Cristianismo
• Estudos literários: clássica, primitiva e medieval
• Religião: geral
• História inglesa e irlandesa
• Início da história moderna: c 1450/1500 a c 1700
• Assuntos religiosos representados em arte
• História da arte: a arte bizantina e medieval c 500 CE a c 1400

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