Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in his Celestial Hierarchy (vii), drew upon the Book of Isaiah in fixing the fiery nature of seraphim in the medieval imagination.
The show, which includes 50 leaves from the original text, unbound and installed around the gallery's perimeter, offers a walking tour of the medieval imagination.
The medieval imagination by Jacques Le Goff.
Finally, the chariot was sometimes represented as a silhouette, a square with two points above representing the horse's heads, which may have been seen to resemble a building with arrowports to the medieval imagination.
Human in form but animal in its sculptured curly hide, the 11 3/4-inch oak figure is a denizen of the medieval imagination.
The harbor-straddling Colossus was a figment of medieval imaginations based on the dedication text's mention of "over land and sea" twice.
Saracens: Islam in the medieval European imagination, New York: Columbia University Press.
Godfrey loomed large in the medieval Christian imagination, and his shadowy genealogy became a popular subject for writers of the period.
Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, The Book Show, ABC Radio National, on his book "Out of the East:spices and the medieval imagination".
Only half of the paintings remain today, and the bright colours have been faded by oxidation, but they provide a remarkable look at medieval life and the medieval imagination.