John Williams, Visions of the End in Medieval Spain: Catalogue of Illustrated Beatus Commentaries on the Apocalypse and Study of the Geneva Beatus, ed. Therese Martin, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017
John R. Williams|Therese Martin
This is the first study to bring together all twenty-nine extant copies of medieval Commentary on Apocalypse, which was originally written by Spanish monk Beatus Liébana. John Williams, a renowned expert Commentary, shares lifetime and offers new insights these strikingly illustrated manuscripts. As he shows, responded differing monastic needs within shifting context Middle Ages. Of special interest discussion recently discovered Geneva copy: one only three commentaries be outside Iberian Peninsula, this manuscript shows both close affinities model fascinating deviations from it in terms its script style illustrations.
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