Homo Memento Finis

Download or read book Homo, Memento Finis written by David M. Bevington and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval cycle plays from such cities as York and Chester culminated in a drama about the end of time, the Last Judgment. David Bevington and the other contributors to this book look at this final event of history as depicted in pre-modern times, and the result is a work of scholarly precision that, according to Bevington's introduction, attempts to see medieval drama in the context of other medieval art forms.