Thanks everybody for your help concerning my query on the year 1000
A.D. The millenium website is really useful!
Professor Landes asks:
>what prompted you to ask?
>
>rlandes
>Richard Landes
Well, I am interested on the development of Devil's iconography in
western art; as far as I know, the ugly, furry, bestial devil is difficult
to find until the 10th century; some scholars have a theory for this fact:
Devil became a crucial figure when the first Last Judgement programs appear
at the edge of the year 1000; the second question is: why Last Judgment
iconography appears now?, and here comes the millenarist theory: when
everybody is thinking on "the final countdown", artists are compelled to
put in images what until this time was only known through the word. This is
what made me put my query on the list. [Nevertheless, the Last Judgment
iconography became "popular" only in Gothic Art, but this is another question]
Thank you again
Carlos Sastre
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