Art and antichrist in medieval Europe

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    • Wright, Rosemary Muir

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Art and antichrist in medieval Europe

Manchester University Press, 1995 , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1995

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-229) and indexes

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Volume

(hardback) ISBN 9780719041587

Description

This book provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the five main parties of the extreme right in the Netherlands (Centrumdemocraten, Centrumpartij), Belgium (Vlaams Blok), and Germany (Die Republikaner, Deutsche Volksunion). Using primary research - including internal party documents - it concludes that rather than right-wing and extremist, the core ideology of these parties is xenophobic nationalist, including also a mix of law and order and welfare chauvinism. The author's research and conclusions have broader implications for the study of the extreme-right phenomenon and party ideology in general. -- .

Table of Contents

  • The Beatus tradition
  • the 12th-century encyclopedias
  • the moralized Bibles
  • the Anglo-Norman cycles of the 13th century
  • adventure narrative and pictured reality, the 14th and 15th centuries
  • the Whore of Babylon.
Volume

(paperback) ISBN 9780719041594

Description

In this study of medieval iconography, Rosemary Muir Wright looks at the changing image of the Antichrist (and his female counterpart, the Whore of Babylon) through seven centuries. Taking as her starting point the Beatus tradition, Muir Wright draws on many previously unpublished illuminated manuscripts from throughout Europe, to illustrate the way the image of Antichrist was used and how it changed through the centuries in response to changes in the political enviroment. She looks particularly at the propaganda uses it was put to in times of theological and political crises. She finishes her volume with an in-depth discussion of the Whore of Babylon. Heavily illustrated throughout, this study should be equally valuable to student of history, art history and theology.

Table of Contents

  • The Beatus tradition
  • the 12th-century encyclopedias
  • the moralized Bibles
  • the Anglo-Norman cycles of the 13th century
  • adventure narrative and pictured reality, the 14th and 15th centuries
  • the Whore of Babylon.

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