Homo, Memento Finis: The Iconography of Just Judgement in Medieval Art and Drama

by David Bevington, Huston Diehl, Richard Kenneth Emmerson, Ronald Herzman, Pamela Sheingorn

Overview

The medieval cycle plays from such cities as York and Chester culminated in a drama about the end of time, the Last Judgment. David Bevington and the other contributors to this book look at this final event of history as depicted in pre-modern times, and the result is a work of scholarly precision that, according to Bevington's introduction, attempts to see medieval drama in the context of other medieval art forms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780918720603
Publisher:	Medieval Institute Publications
Publication date:	07/01/1985
Series:	Early Drama, Art, and Music , #6
Pages:	253
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Bevington is the Phyllis Faye Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and the chair of Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. Huston Diehl was a professor of English and a CLAS Collegiate Fellow at the University of Iowa.Richard Kenneth Emmerson is dean of Manhattan College's school of the arts and a former director of the Medieval Academy of America. Ronald Herzman is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY - Geneseo. Pamela Sheingorn is a professor of History at Baruch College.

Table of Contents

For God Is Such a Doomsman: Origins and Development of the Theme of Last Judgment by Pamela Sheingorn Let Us Seek Him Also: Tropological Judgment in Twelfth-Century Art and Drama by Ronald B. Herzman Nowe Ys Common This Daye: Enoch and Elias, Antichrist, and the Structure of the Chester Cycle by Richard Kenneth Emmerson Alle This Was Token Domysday to Drede: Visual Signs of Last Judgment in the Corpus Christi Cycles and in Late Gothic Art by Pamela Sheingorn and David Bevington Man, Thinke on Thine Endinge Day: Stage Pictures of Just Judgment in The Castle of Perseverance by David Bevington To Put Us in Remembrance: The Protestant Transformation of Images of Judgment by Huston Diehl L'Envoi by David Bevington