Visions of the End in Medieval Spain : Catalogue of Illustrated Beatus Commentaries on the Apocalypse and Study of the Geneva Beatus / Therese Martin, John Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, John, 1928 February 25-2015, author.

Contributor:

Martin, Therese, editor.

Series:

Late antique and early medieval Iberia

Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 pages).

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Never before have all twenty-nine illustrated copies of the Beatus Commentaries on the Apocalypse been brought together for comparative analysis in a single volume. John Williams, renowned expert on the Commentaries, offers here his updated considerations on the material, revising and summing up a lifetime of study on these strikingly illuminated manuscripts. Dating from the early to central Middle Ages, the Spanish phenomenon of the Commentary on the Apocalypse responded to differing monastic needs within the shifting context of the Middle Ages. The volume also presents an in-depth study of the recently discovered Geneva Beatus. One of only three Commentaries written outside the Iberian Peninsula, this manuscript closely follows a Spanish model but was written in a Beneventan script and painted in a style dramatically different from the original.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Knowledge Unlatched Round 2

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 103475

ISBN:

9789048530014

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access