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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 p



Table of Contents
*Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. ix*LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. xi*PREFACE, pg. xiii*ONE. New Directions in Twelfth-Century Spirituality, pg. 1*TWO. Anagogy, Aevum and Two Later Medieval Visionary Arts, pg. 35*THREE. The Vita Nuova: Dante's Boo\ of Revelation, pg. 84*FOUR. The Later Medieval Spiritual Quest: Through Time to Aevum, pg. 124*FIVE. Pearl: A Fourteenth-Century Vision in August, pg. 156*SIX. Will's Dark Visions of Piers the Plowman, pg. 205*INDEX, pg. 259

The Gothic Visionary Perspective

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/03/2015
      ISBN13: 9780691602929, 978-0691602929
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 p



      Table of Contents
      *Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. ix*LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. xi*PREFACE, pg. xiii*ONE. New Directions in Twelfth-Century Spirituality, pg. 1*TWO. Anagogy, Aevum and Two Later Medieval Visionary Arts, pg. 35*THREE. The Vita Nuova: Dante's Boo\ of Revelation, pg. 84*FOUR. The Later Medieval Spiritual Quest: Through Time to Aevum, pg. 124*FIVE. Pearl: A Fourteenth-Century Vision in August, pg. 156*SIX. Will's Dark Visions of Piers the Plowman, pg. 205*INDEX, pg. 259

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