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"March has picked up where Aesop and Don Marquis left off, prick- ing vanities and exposing antics of chronic phonies. . . . Here are damning truths about the Noblest Animal, here is vitriol without venom. richard Brough catches the full flavor in his illustrations." -New York Times Book Review

Fables. --- Didactic literature --- Exempla --- Fiction --- Homiletical illustrations --- Legends --- Literature --- Tales --- Allegories --- Parables

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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.

Arts, Gothic. --- Christian art and symbolism --- Apocalyptic art. --- Gothic arts --- Arts, Medieval --- Art, Apocalyptic --- Allegories --- Symbolism in art

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Discussions of apocalyptic thought and its sources in the ancient Near East, particularly Mesopotamia, have a long scholarly history, with a renewed interest and focus in the recent decades. Outside Assyriological scholarship as well, studies of the apocalyptic give significant credit to the ancient Near East, especially Babylonia and Iran, as potential sources for the manifestations of this phenomenon in the Hellenistic period. The emphasis on kingship and empire in apocalyptic modes of thinking warrants special attention paid to the regal art of ancient Mesopotamia and adjacent areas in its potential to express the relevant notions. In this book, Mehmet-Ali Ataç demonstrates the importance of visual evidence as a source for apocalyptic thought. Focusing on the so-called investiture painting from Mari, he relates it to parallel evidence from the visual traditions of the Assyrian Empire, ancient Egypt, and Hittite Anatolia.

Time and art. --- Holy, The, in art. --- Apocalyptic art. --- Art, Ancient --- Art, Apocalyptic --- Allegories --- Symbolism in art --- Art and time --- Art --- Themes, motives.

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The Allegory of the church is the first full-length study of Romanesque verse inscriptions in the context of church portals and portal sculpture, and is the product of a twenty-year study. Calvin B. Kendall demonstrates how these inscriptions served to express the role of the church building as a concrete allegory of Christ and the Church. Describing them in detail, he traces the history and nature of the changes in allegorical interpretation of the inscriptions until, as medieval assumptions about language and rhetoric changed, they were finally abandoned by Gothic artists.

Doorways, Romanesque --- Church doorways --- Architectural inscriptions --- Inscriptions, Latin --- Allegories --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Architecture --- Allegories. --- Christian art and symbolism --- Portails romans --- Portails d'église --- Inscriptions architecturales --- Inscriptions latines --- Allégories --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Latin inscriptions --- Architectural lettering --- Building inscriptions --- House inscriptions --- Inscriptions, Architectural --- Romanesque doorways --- Allegory (Art) --- Exempla --- Fiction --- Homiletical illustrations --- Tales --- Fables --- Parables --- Latin language --- Latin philology --- Inscriptions --- Lettering --- Doorways --- 726 --- 726 Religieuze bouwkunst. Kerkelijke bouwkunst. Sacrale architectuur --- Religieuze bouwkunst. Kerkelijke bouwkunst. Sacrale architectuur --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia

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"A cross-disciplinary study, The Apocalypse in Germany analyzes fundamental aspects of the apocalypse as a religious, political, and aesthetic phenomenon. Author Klaus Vondung draws from religious, philosophical, and political texts, as well as works of art and literature. Using classic Jewish and Christian apocalyptic texts as symbolic and historical paradigms, Vondung determines the structural characteristics and the typical images of the apocalyptic worldview. He clarifies the relationship between apocalyptic visions and utopian speculations and explores the question of whether modern apocalypses can be viewed as secularizations of the Judeo-Christian models." "Examining sources from the eighteenth century to the present, Vondung considers the origins of German nationalism, World War I, National Socialism, and the apocalyptic tendencies in Marxism as well as German literature - from the fin di siecle to postmodernism. His analysis of the existential dimension of the apocalypse explores the circumstances under which particular individuals become apocalyptic visionaries and explains why the apocalyptic tradition is so prevalent in Germany." "The Apocalypse in Germany offers an interdisciplinary perspective that will appeal to a broad audience. This book will also be of value to readers with an interest in German studies, as it clarifies that riddles of Germany's turbulent history and examines the profile of German culture, particularly in the past century."--Jacket.

Apocalyptic art --- Apocalyptic literature. --- German literature --- History --- Nationalism --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- History (Theology) --- Literature, Apocalyptic --- Literature --- Art, Apocalyptic --- Allegories --- Symbolism in art --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History. --- Germany --- Philosophy.