Bruce Chilton, “Medieval Apocalypse”, lecture given at Bard College (published 19 October 2013)
Dan Attrell,“For 1,260 Days They’ll Prophesy in Sackcloth: Joachim of Fiore’s Apocalypse, Temporalization, and Franciscan Spirituality”, The Modern Hermeticist (published 4 Sept. 2018)
James Crossley, "From the Peasants' Revolt to Jeremy Corbyn - The Fate of the Bible in the English Radical Tradition", the Ed Conrad Memorial Lecture, University of Queensland (29 May 2019)
The Bible has been an ongoing feature in English political radicalism. While such uses of the Bible did not begin with the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, this particular revolt has commonly been seen as a convenient starting point. In this talk, Professor Crossley will use the Peasants’ Revolt and its reception to look at which biblical texts have been used, remembered, forgotten, and rethought in the English radical tradition. He will look at the ways in which historical and cultural contexts (e.g. the emergence of the labour movement, the tensions between revolutionary and parliamentary socialism, Cold War, folk music traditions, declining church affiliation, Brexit) have helped frame the ways the Bible, Englishness, radicalism, and the Peasants’ Revolt are currently understood and used in English political discourse.
Antonio Sennis, “Medieval languages of persuasion”, UCL Lunch Hour Lectures (published 18 March 2014)
“Divine letters, supernatural visions and apocalyptic curses were often successfully employed by medieval clerics to persuade their counterparts to do what they wanted them to do. This lecture explores how these tools of persuasion responded to a Medieval cultural logic.”
“Catharism”, In Our Time (BBC Radio 4, 17 January 2002)
“Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cathars, a medieval European Christian sect accused of heresy. In 1215 Pope Innocent III called the greatest meeting of Catholic minds for a hundred years. He hoped that the Fourth Lateran Council would represent the crowning glory of a Papacy that was more powerful than ever before, and it laid down decrees to standardise Christian belief across the whole of Western Europe and heal the papal schism of a generation before. But despite the wealth and power of the Vatican, all was not as it should have been in the Catholic world; Jerusalem was lost, the Crusades were failing, and in the regions of Europe the spectre of heresy moved over the land. It loomed largest in the wealthy Languedoc region of Southern France, where celibate vegetarians called Cathars were proving more popular than Jesus. The Pope moved against the Cathars but why was Catharism such a threat, what were its beliefs and what was the intellectual and spiritual climate that made the high middle ages the era of the heretic?”
Podcast available here
Rangsook Yoon, “Albrecht Durer’s 'Apocalypse': Late Medieval Piety and Anxiety about the End of The World”, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College (published 26 July 2016)
“Rangsook Yoon, Ph.D., CFAM's Dale Montgomery Fellow and a scholar of Renaissance and Baroque art, shares the groundbreaking nature and historical significance of Albrecht Durer’s 'Apocalypse' series.”
Nancy Ross, “English Apocalypse Manuscript Lecture: An overview of the Gulbenkian Apocalypse” (published by Nancy Ross 2 December 2015)
