The sibyl series of the fifteenth century / / by Robin Raybould.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 261
• VerfasserIn: Raybould, Robin,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 261.; Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 pages) :; illustrations.

Robin Raybould's The Sibyl Series of the Fifteenth Century examines the startling and sudden change that occurred in the representation of the sibyls throughout Europe during the early Renaissance. Raybould describes how and why during this period the number, names, attributes and prophecies of these archaic prophetesses were selected and stabilized thus providing new witness to the Christian message in sharp contrast to earlier representations where the sibyls had played a minor role in the history of classical and Christian divination and prophecy. The book examines all the fifteenth-century instances of these series, as well as the manuscripts which describe them, identifies the origin of the sibylline prophecies and suggests reasons for the widespread popularity of this new artistic phenomenon.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 The Sibyls of Greece and Rome -- 2 The Early Christian Era -- 3 The Middle Ages -- 4 The Sibyls at the Beginning of the Fifteenth Century -- 5 The Cortina Sibyls -- 6 The Orsini Sibyls -- 7 The Manuscripts of the Orsini Series -- 8 The Theme, Order and Attributes of the Fifteenth-Century Sibyl Series -- 9 The Sibyl Series Derived from the Orsini Frescos -- 10 The Oracula Sibyllina of St. Gall -- 11 The Lactantius Versions of the Fifteenth-Century Sibyl Series -- 12 Conclusion -- Appendix 1 The Texts and Origin of the Prophecies of the Orsini Sibyls -- Appendix 2 Pausanias: Description of Greece 10.12 -- Appendix 3 Clement of Alexandria: Stromata -- Appendix 4 The Sibyl’s References to Christianity in the Divine Institutes of Lactantius -- Appendix 5 Table of the Order of the Sibyls -- Bibliography -- Index.