'You Shall Surely not Die' (2 Vols.)

Download or read book 'You Shall Surely not Die' (2 Vols.) written by Jill Bradley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period 800-1200 saw many changes in attitude towards death, sin and salvation. Visual sources can provide a valuable complement to written sources, often modifying or adding another dimension to what scholars and theologians expressed in words. Taking miniatures showing the Fall of Man and those with personifications of death, this study looks at the ideas they express and the relationship between them. It examines both the general tendencies and specific manuscripts, relating them to their contexts and to the writings of the time. This book shows the shifts in ideas as to what constitutes sin, the merging of eschatological death with sin and a new emphasis on physical death, thereby giving new insights into medieval thought and culture.