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Book SynopsisFilling today's religious book market are Apocalypse commentaries teaching that the seven seals of Revelation 5-8 describe tragedies that are to take place in the last days. Medieval Europeans, on the other hand, thought very differently about the seven seals. Some used the seven seals for catechetical purposes and associated them with seven major events in the life of Christ or seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. Other medieval writers taught that the seven seals contained symbols about life in the church between the first and second comings of Christ. Still others viewed the seals as milestones in the grand outline of salvation history. This book illustrates this vastness of medieval interpretive tradition on the seven seals. It includes fifteen texts from the sixth through the fifteenth centuries, which have been organized under three headings: those illustrating christological interpretations of the seven seals, those proposing ecclesiastical interpretations, and those giving historical interpretations.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 Christological Interpretations of the Seven Seals Apringius of Beja,
Tract on the Apocalypse Pseudo-Alcuin,
On the Seven Seals Irish Reference Bible Celtic Catechism Hugh of Saint Cher,
Exposition on the Apocalypse Nicholas of Gorran,
On the Apocalypse of the Apostle John Part 2 Ecclesiastical Interpretations of the Seven Seals Caesarius of Arles,
Exposition of the Apocalypse Cassiodorus,
Brief Explanations of the Apocalypse Pseudo-Jerome,
Handbook on the Apocalypse Alcuin of York,
Question and Answer Manual on the Apocalypse Part 3 Historical Interpretations of the Seven Seals Joachim of Fiore,
On the Seven Seals Vital du Four,
Commentaries on the Apocalypse The Confession of Prous Boneta Peter Auriol,
Compendium on Holy Scripture Giovanni Nanni,
Gloss on the Apocalypse Notes Bibliography
