Tag Archives: medieval literature
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Daniel Wakelin
Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 439/16, f. 74r (detail): John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes. Image courtesy of The Rosenbach, Philadelphia.
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Richard Matthew Pollard
The afterlife as envisioned by medieval Europeans was both a strange and familiar place. For us, hell conjures images of fiery rivers and demons, while heaven calls to mind shining white figures in repose. The same things appear in medieval descriptions. Yet these same texts, which were frequently based on the supposed reports of the […]
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Daniel Wakelin
Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, MS 439/16, f. 74r (detail): John Lydgate, The Fall of Pr...
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Richard Matthew Pollard
The afterlife as envisioned by medieval Europeans was both a strange and familiar place. For us, hell conjures images of fiery rivers and demons, while heaven calls to mind shining white figures in repose. The same things appear in medieval descriptions. Yet these same texts, which were frequently based on the supposed reports of the […]
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