A devotional milieu shared by Walter Hilton and the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing was the probable basis of intertextual exchanges which took place in the early 1390s in major works by each writer. The article considers how this dialogue contributes to the climactic rendition of Hilton's spiritual attainment in Scale 2 . Early chapters are uninfluenced by the Cloud texts and...
Reviews 299 function, patron, designer, choice of atelier and cultural milieu are treated very briefly in the concluding chapter. This study of a remarkably individual yet very Byzantine monument will be of enduring value. The photographs are commendably crisp and highhghts from the artificial lighting are kept to a minimum and away from thefigures.Appropriately, an Italian edition has been...