Renana Bartal is Senior Lecturer in the Art History department at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

"By interrogating difference rather than seeking similarities, this study offers a valuable new perspective on the later English Apocalypse tradition. It challenges perceptions of illuminators as rude craftsmen, highlights the cultural patronage and intellectual interests of a diverse range of fourteenth-century audiences, and explores the multiple textual, social, devotional and pastoral contexts in which fourteenth-century Apocalypse manuscripts can be sited with great insight and expertise."--Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture"The result is an impressively scholarly and original work which offers invaluable insights into the dissemination and reception of pastoral material in the vernacular in the fourteenth century, especially amongst female readers, and significantly advances our understanding of the uses and importance of Apocalypse material in the period."--Medium Aevum

• Table of ContentsList of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsIntroduction A Fourteenth-Century Group of English Apocalypse IlluminatorsWorkshop Practice and the Question of AuthorshipCompilation and ReadershipChapter 1. Seeing with Spiritual Eyes: The Pepys ApocalypseA Workshop ModelSeeing with ‘Spiritual Eyes’Eucharistic Devotion and Bridal Mysticism‘Le bon prelat’The Pepys Apocalypse and the Cura MonialiumConclusionChapter 2. A Book Designed for a Lady: The Selden ApocalypseThe Owner of the BookA Book for Teaching The Illuminator as CompilerA Literal ApocalypseTying Évangile to Apocalypse: Alpha and OmegaConclusionChapter 3. Knowledge and Ascent: The Brussels ApocalypseThe Lumere as lais Knowledge and Ascent‘Seint Pol le apostre’ and the Moral EmphasisClose RelationsThe Brussels Apocalypse as an Exemplar and Mental Substitute for a Lost ImageMore Images in the MarginsConclusionChapter 4. Concluding Remarks: The Care of Souls and the Artist as AuthorDiverse Readers and the Care of SoulsCustomized Practices and Questions of AuthorshipBibliography Index

Renana Bartal is Senior Lecturer in the Art History department at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

"By interrogating difference rather than seeking similarities, this study offers a valuable new perspective on the later English Apocalypse tradition. It challenges perceptions of illuminators as rude craftsmen, highlights the cultural patronage and intellectual interests of a diverse range of fourteenth-century audiences, and explores the multiple textual, social, devotional and pastoral contexts in which fourteenth-century Apocalypse manuscripts can be sited with great insight and expertise."--Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture"The result is an impressively scholarly and original work which offers invaluable insights into the dissemination and reception of pastoral material in the vernacular in the fourteenth century, especially amongst female readers, and significantly advances our understanding of the uses and importance of Apocalypse material in the period."--Medium Aevum

• Table of ContentsList of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsIntroduction A Fourteenth-Century Group of English Apocalypse IlluminatorsWorkshop Practice and the Question of AuthorshipCompilation and ReadershipChapter 1. Seeing with Spiritual Eyes: The Pepys ApocalypseA Workshop ModelSeeing with ‘Spiritual Eyes’Eucharistic Devotion and Bridal Mysticism‘Le bon prelat’The Pepys Apocalypse and the Cura MonialiumConclusionChapter 2. A Book Designed for a Lady: The Selden ApocalypseThe Owner of the BookA Book for Teaching The Illuminator as CompilerA Literal ApocalypseTying Évangile to Apocalypse: Alpha and OmegaConclusionChapter 3. Knowledge and Ascent: The Brussels ApocalypseThe Lumere as lais Knowledge and Ascent‘Seint Pol le apostre’ and the Moral EmphasisClose RelationsThe Brussels Apocalypse as an Exemplar and Mental Substitute for a Lost ImageMore Images in the MarginsConclusionChapter 4. Concluding Remarks: The Care of Souls and the Artist as AuthorDiverse Readers and the Care of SoulsCustomized Practices and Questions of AuthorshipBibliography Index

Renana Bartal is Senior Lecturer in the Art History department at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

"By interrogating difference rather than seeking similarities, this study offers a valuable new perspective on the later English Apocalypse tradition. It challenges perceptions of illuminators as rude craftsmen, highlights the cultural patronage and intellectual interests of a diverse range of fourteenth-century audiences, and explores the multiple textual, social, devotional and pastoral contexts in which fourteenth-century Apocalypse manuscripts can be sited with great insight and expertise."--Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture"The result is an impressively scholarly and original work which offers invaluable insights into the dissemination and reception of pastoral material in the vernacular in the fourteenth century, especially amongst female readers, and significantly advances our understanding of the uses and importance of Apocalypse material in the period."--Medium Aevum

• Table of ContentsList of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsIntroduction A Fourteenth-Century Group of English Apocalypse IlluminatorsWorkshop Practice and the Question of AuthorshipCompilation and ReadershipChapter 1. Seeing with Spiritual Eyes: The Pepys ApocalypseA Workshop ModelSeeing with ‘Spiritual Eyes’Eucharistic Devotion and Bridal Mysticism‘Le bon prelat’The Pepys Apocalypse and the Cura MonialiumConclusionChapter 2. A Book Designed for a Lady: The Selden ApocalypseThe Owner of the BookA Book for Teaching The Illuminator as CompilerA Literal ApocalypseTying Évangile to Apocalypse: Alpha and OmegaConclusionChapter 3. Knowledge and Ascent: The Brussels ApocalypseThe Lumere as lais Knowledge and Ascent‘Seint Pol le apostre’ and the Moral EmphasisClose RelationsThe Brussels Apocalypse as an Exemplar and Mental Substitute for a Lost ImageMore Images in the MarginsConclusionChapter 4. Concluding Remarks: The Care of Souls and the Artist as AuthorDiverse Readers and the Care of SoulsCustomized Practices and Questions of AuthorshipBibliography Index