Title: "Seeing" the Apocalyptic City in the fourteenth century
Creator: Morrison, Tessa
Relation: End of Days: Essays on the Apocalypse from Antiquity to Modernity p. 67-86
Relation: http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4204-1
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2009
Description: In the thirteenth and fourteenth century the cathedral was the height of European achievement; it embodied the whole of Christian knowledge and attempted to mimic the divine in its architecture. It was the ritual, spiritual and economic, as well as the physical, center of the city. The cathedral was intended to be an image of heaven both mystically and liturgically. The dedication ritual of the cathedral explicitly related to the vision of the New Jerusalem, as described by John the Divine in the Book of Revelation. This image of the descending New Jerusalem included in the dedication introduced the symbolic relationship between the Divine New Jerusalem and the earthly cathedral.
Subject: cathedrals; New Jerusalem; Book of Revelation; Apocalyptic City
Identifier: uon:8603
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918422
Identifier: ISBN:9780786442041

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"Seeing" the Apocalyptic City in the fourteenth century