Visions of the End in Medieval Spain : Catalogue of Illustrated Beatus Commentaries on the Apocalypse and Study of the Geneva Beatus Catalogue of Illustrated Beatus Commentaries on the Apocalypse and Study of the Geneva Beatus

This Is The First Study To Bring Together All Twenty-nine Extant Copies Of The Medieval Commentary On The Apocalypse, Which Was Originally Written By Spanish Monk Beatus Of Liébana. John Williams, A Renowned Expert On The Commentary, Shares A Lifetime Of Study And Offers New Insights On These Strikingly Illustrated Manuscripts. As He Shows, The Commentary Responded To Differing Monastic Needs Within The Shifting Context Of The Middle Ages. Of Special Interest Is A Discussion Of The Recently Discovered Geneva Copy: One Of Only Three Commentaries To Be Written Outside Of The Iberian Peninsula, This Manuscript Shows Both Close Affinities To The Spanish Model And Fascinating Deviations From It In Terms Of Its Script And Style Of Illustrations.-- Visions Of The End In Medieval Spain : Introductory Essay -- The Census : A Complete Register Of Illustrated Beatus Commentaries And Fragments -- Introduction To Geneva Beatus -- Geneva Illustrations With Apocalyptic Storiae And Analysis Of The Images -- Appendix. Geneva Beatus Codicological Construction. John Williams ; Edited By Therese Martin. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 273-284) And Indexes. 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. Contents Editor’s Foreword Acknowledgements 1. Visions of the End in Medieval Spain 2. The Census 3. Introduction to the Geneva Beatus 4. Geneva Illustrations with Apocalyptic Storiae and Analysis of the Images Appendix Bibliography Index of People Index of Places Index of Subjects

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