Homo, Memento Finis

The Iconography of Just Judgement in Medieval Art and Drama

By (author) David Bevington By (author) Huston Diehl By (author) Richard K. Emmerson By (author) Ronald Herzman By (author) Pamela Sheingorn

Book cover: Homo, Memento Finis

Extent: 253 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Series: Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 1985)

ISBN: 9780918720603

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $19.95

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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.”

Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
"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
Index

  • By (author) David Bevington
  • By (author) Huston Diehl
  • By (author) Richard K. Emmerson
  • By (author) Ronald Herzman
  • By (author) Pamela Sheingorn