Justin M. Byron-Davies, Revelation and Apocalypse in Late Medieval Literature: The Writings of Julian of Norwich and William Langland. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2020. P. 211.

Abstract

Abstract: Justin M. Byron-Davis, who completed his doctorate under the direction of Professor Diane Watts at the University of Surrey, has written a literary and theological study of the influence of the biblical Apocalypse on the Revelations of Julian of Norwich and The Vision of Piers Plowman of William Langland. His work follows in the academic footsteps of Morton Bloomfield (Piers Plowman as Fourteenth-Century Apocalypse, 1962), Richard K. Emmerson (Antichrist in the Middle Ages, 1981; and Emmerson, edited with Bernard McGinn, The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, 1992), and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers Plowman, 2007), among others. He builds on a firm scholarly foundation and shares new insights about biblical apocalypticism in late-medieval English literature.