Reading images: narrative discourse and reception in the thirteenth-century illuminated apocalypse

Introduction. Apocalypsis depictus: A Book of Visions

pt. I. Decoding the Thirteenth-Century Apocalyptic Discourse. 1. Auctor et Auctoritas: St. John as Seer, Author, Preceptor, and Pilgrim. 2. Problems of Archetype, Genre, and Narrative. 3. The Narrative Paradigm: A Synchronic View

pt. II. Locating the Thirteenth-Century Reader in the Book. 4. The Ideology of the Book: Referencing Contemporary Crisis within Specular Structures of Power. 5. Transactional Experiences Encoded in the Imaged Text. 6. Picturing Other Visions: Expanding the Reader's Experience of the Book in Three Appended Cycles of Illustration

Appendix: Census and Bibliography of Thirteenth-Century English Apocalypses.