Art, Music, and Politics in the Book of Revelation

We'll take a quick look at the Book of Revelation-who wrote it, and when; then the astonishing range of art and music it has inspired for nearly 2000 years, and how its visions of monsters, beasts, and whores have played out in politics, often on both sides of the same war, from the 7th century through the Crusades and religious wars of Europe, to the American Civil War, WW2, the 21st century Iraq war, including current conflict between ISIS and the west.