The Apocalypse of the Middle Ages: Hieronymus Bosch, Ivan the Terrible, and the End of the World

The first academic popular science work in Russian that covers so many plotlines of medieval iconography. Published on the initiative of “Suffering Middle Ages.” A unique text with a bit of humor. This audiobook tells how, in Christian iconography, the sacred intertwined with the comical, the monstrous, and the indecent. Much of what today seems like outrageous sacrilege, in the Middle Ages, the era of almost universal religiousness, was perfectly normal. We’ll talk about monkeys in the margins of ancient texts, indecent figures on church walls, and saints portrayed in monstrous forms. Where did these images come from, and how are they connected to the later development of world art?