IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1618: Medieval Interpretations of the Book of Revelation in Text and Image, II
Thursday 16 July 2009, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages |
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| Organiser: | Elisabeth Mégier, Independent Scholar, Paris |
| Moderator/Chair: | Eva de Visscher, Faculty of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1618-a | Reading Augustine's De Civitate Dei through Apocalypsis: Some Reflections on Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 469 (Canterbury, 12th Century) (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Biblical Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Theology |
| Paper 1618-b | Images of the Apocalyptic Lamb of God in Moldavian Paintings of the 15th-16th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Biblical Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Theology |
| Paper 1618-c | The Apocalyptic Cycle of the Romanesque Murals in the Narthex of Saint Savin sur Gartempe (Vienne): Do They Illustrate Political Ideas of the Gregorian Reform? (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Biblical Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Political Thought |
| Abstract | The first aim of these sessions is to present examples of the variety of medieval approaches to the Book of Revelation: variety of hermeneutical presuppositions, variety of interpretive genres (commentaries, other forms of literature, various kinds of artistic expression), variety of intended audiences and messages, and of the choice of themes to be emphasized, according to the different individual, social, and temporal contexts. The second aim is to explore, if possible, the interaction of different approaches. The question of orthodoxy or deviation will be – if implicitly – present. The first session will focus essentially on texts, the second on the visual arts. |