by saltzman | Mar 18, 2020 | Questions
Seeing hell for oneself, watching the torture of a saint, looking at illustrations of war: these profoundly terrible experiences, narrated and drawn, shaped the way medieval readers took in the world around them, its violence, its suffering, its preponderance of...
by saltzman | Mar 17, 2020 | Visions of Hell
Image: Apocalipsis in dietsche, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Néerlandais 3, fol. 22r Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window)...
by saltzman | Mar 17, 2020 | Prudentius
Image: Wrath attacking Patience in Prudentius’s Psychomachia: London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra C VIII, fol. 12r Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window)...
