"The Abingdon Apocalypse" 1270.

[Bratot]

British Library :

Miniature Representing The Power Of Rome, In 'The Abingdon Apocalypse'

This Apocalypse manuscript contains the Latin text of the biblical book of Revelation, written on versos, with a commentary in French on the facing rectos, each with a miniature. The manuscript takes its name from two added inscriptions: one states that it was given to the Benedictine abbey of St. Mary, Abingdon, by a bishop of Salisbury; the other records that it was lent by the abbot and convent of Abingdon in 1362 to Joan, wife of King David II of Scotland.

The image contains four compositions, each with a king and a bishop: three are in circles (representing cities) to the left , and one larger one is to the right. They represent the kingdoms of Assyria, Persia, Macedonia and Rome; the power of the first three has passed to the fourth.


In the book The Apocalypse and the shape of things to come By Frances Carey, British Museum on the 79th page the same picture and on the next page the explanation:

In the two images displayed, the angels holding the four winds at the four corners of the earth are compared with the unity of the holy Church and the four ancient kingdoms of Assyria, Persia, MACEDONIA and Rome. Each kingdom is visualized as a walled city with a bishop, signifying spiritual authority, at an altar and a king seated in his palace exercising temporal power. Rome takes pride of place on the right (the pope as bishop of Rome is signified by his triangular mitre). By the four angels the commentary directs the reader to understand that Rome alone could appropriate the power of the four kingdoms.

[Risto the Great]

Can you see anything that signifies Macedonia in the picture?

[Bratot]

It's worth mentioning that before applying the "Hellenic" character to Macedonia by Bayron and the Western Monarchy, they were pretty aware of Macedonian significance and meaning as one of the 4 biggest Kingdoms in the history.
They don't refer to some "Greek Kingdom" in 1270 simply because it never existed as such, not as the Greeks want to present it nowdays.

They (westerners) forget to who they were admiring and whos power and glory they seek in the past.

[Bratot]

Can you see anything that signifies Macedonia in the picture?

Diagram Of Continents And Countries, In A Collection Of Chronicles Of English History And Miscellaneous Tracts


This volume consists of numerous texts of the 14th and 15th centuries; they encompass a wide variety of materials, in Latin and French, prose and verse. All but the last two items were bound together by the 15th century, when they were owned by the Carmelite Convent in London. On the right-hand half of this page are the names of the three continents ('Asie provincie', 'Affrice provincie', and 'Europe provincie'), linked by lines to the names of countries and towns, For Europe the list begins with Rome, and is followed by Calabria, Spain, Germany, Macedonia, etc.