Last things
Subtitle: apocalypse, judgment and millennium in the middle ages
By: edited by Susan J. Ridyard.
Contributors: Ridyard, Susan J. 1957-
Series: Sewanee mediaeval studies -- v. 12
Publisher: University of the South Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Sewanee, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Langland, William, -- 1330?-1400?; Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321.; Thomas, -- Aquinas, Saint, -- 1225?-1274 -- Contributions in concept of the eternity of the world.; Henry VII Chapel (Westminster Abbey); Pearl (Middle English poem); Justification (Christian theology); Judgment Day -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Second Advent -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Millennium (Eschatology) -- Religious aspects -- Europe -- History.; Apocalypse in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Debating justification : faith, deeds, and the parables of Pearl and Piers Plowman / Alexander Bruce; title: A glorious vision of heaven : the chapel of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey / Virginia Knox Henderson; title: Dante's prophecy of peripety (Par. 27.142-148): an astrological Fortuna / Richard Kay; title: Meditating on passion, meditating on judgment : the first and second comings of Christ in medieval imagination / Richard Kieckhefer; title: Thomas Aquinas on both ends of the world / Ralph McInerny; title: The first-fruit of the last judgment : the Commedia as a thirteenth-century apocalypse / James C. Nohrnberg.