NCKU professor gives a talk on medieval apocalyptic imagination - Noodls
Professor Carolyn F. Scott from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, gave a talk on The Medieval Apocalyptic Imagination at NCKU Library on May 25.
"People in the medieval period were worried about the same things we're worried about," said Scott in her talk adding, "There's disease, wars, chaos and troubles. What does that mean and how does it teach us about where are us headed or what we should be doing with our lives."
She also said, "For the medieval people, it tended to either focus them in the direction of becoming more religious, or of sort of giving up. In our time, we can see kind of same things happening that people who have religious faith find this difficult time is a time when their faith becomes more important to them and some other people feel more despair."
"Medieval imagination might be a little more graphic," said Scott when she showed the audience some of the painting by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel, "but they concern about the same thing as we are."
"Apocalypse comes from the Book of Revelation, which is the last book of the Bible," according to Scott who talked about the origin of the Apocalypse and some features of the Apocalypse.
Scott introduced a book named "Illuminating the End of Time: The Getty Apocalypse Manuscript" by Nigel Morgan. The book has detailed descriptions of the end of the world, illuminating the End of Time and it offers introduction to the history of thirteenth-century English illustrated Apocalypse manuscripts.
When interpreting Bosch's painting of Last Judgment, she said, "The imagery he picks for his images of heaven and hell are very interesting and very modern in some kind of way."
"His paintings show a reflection of Apocalypse of imagination of what it would be like at the end of time," according to Scott.
"If you look into the details of some of the images of what's happening, it's very fascinating," Scott said.
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"People in the medieval period were worried about the same things we're worried about," said Scott in her talk adding, "There's disease, wars, chaos and troubles. What does that mean and how does it teach us about where are us headed or what we should be doing with our lives."
She also said, "For the medieval people, it tended to either focus them in the direction of becoming more religious, or of sort of giving up. In our time, we can see kind of same things happening that people who have religious faith find this difficult time is a time when their faith becomes more important to them and some other people feel more despair."
"Medieval imagination might be a little more graphic," said Scott when she showed the audience some of the painting by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel, "but they concern about the same thing as we are."
"Apocalypse comes from the Book of Revelation, which is the last book of the Bible," according to Scott who talked about the origin of the Apocalypse and some features of the Apocalypse.
Scott introduced a book named "Illuminating the End of Time: The Getty Apocalypse Manuscript" by Nigel Morgan. The book has detailed descriptions of the end of the world, illuminating the End of Time and it offers introduction to the history of thirteenth-century English illustrated Apocalypse manuscripts.
When interpreting Bosch's painting of Last Judgment, she said, "The imagery he picks for his images of heaven and hell are very interesting and very modern in some kind of way."
"His paintings show a reflection of Apocalypse of imagination of what it would be like at the end of time," according to Scott.
"If you look into the details of some of the images of what's happening, it's very fascinating," Scott said.
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