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The Gothic Visionary Perspective / Barbara Nolan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1383Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1977Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691602929
  • 9781400870554
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700/.9/02
LOC classification:
  • NX650.A6
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ONE. New Directions in Twelfth-Century Spirituality -- TWO. Anagogy, Aevum and Two Later Medieval Visionary Arts -- THREE. The Vita Nuova: Dante's Boo of Revelation -- FOUR. The Later Medieval Spiritual Quest: Through Time to Aevum -- FIVE. Pearl: A Fourteenth-Century Vision in August -- SIX. Will's Dark Visions of Piers the Plowman -- INDEX -- Backmatter
Summary: 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. Professor Nolan's close study of the Vita Nuova indicates that in his earliest work Dante used a prophetic voice and a graded series of visions to shape his conventional love story into a book of revelation. Examination of the thirteenth-century spiritual quest reveals that French writers, transforming older monastic forms, gave new importance to the process of conversion by way of vision. Pearl and Piers Plowman participate in the tradition of the spiritual quest even as Piers marks a final moment in its history.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ONE. New Directions in Twelfth-Century Spirituality -- TWO. Anagogy, Aevum and Two Later Medieval Visionary Arts -- THREE. The Vita Nuova: Dante's Boo of Revelation -- FOUR. The Later Medieval Spiritual Quest: Through Time to Aevum -- FIVE. Pearl: A Fourteenth-Century Vision in August -- SIX. Will's Dark Visions of Piers the Plowman -- INDEX -- Backmatter

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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. Professor Nolan's close study of the Vita Nuova indicates that in his earliest work Dante used a prophetic voice and a graded series of visions to shape his conventional love story into a book of revelation. Examination of the thirteenth-century spiritual quest reveals that French writers, transforming older monastic forms, gave new importance to the process of conversion by way of vision. Pearl and Piers Plowman participate in the tradition of the spiritual quest even as Piers marks a final moment in its history.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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