Papers and such-like!

I've spent a good chunk of today (and will probably spend another good chunk of the rest of today) working on my honors art history paper. I have the subject matter finally narrowed down, but I'm still not sure what my thesis will be. I'm not even sure if art history papers technically have a traditional "thesis." I mean, it's not like I can make any astounding, ground-breaking cases like "William de Brailes was really a WOMAN!!!!"...I'm under the impression that this paper is going to end up being a bit more....expository.

As of right now, the paper is likely to be a discussion of an illustrated page from William de Brailes entitled "Fall of the Rebel Angels" (in the Fitzwilliam collection) and a comparison to another William de Brailes piece called "The Last Judgement." I must admit, I much prefer "Fall of the Rebel Angels," (if you look towards the bottom half, you can see the angels turning into devils as they fall!!!) even though it's been the most frustratingly obscure manuscript to get my hands on!

Here's "The Last Judgement":

And here's "The Fall of the Rebel Angels":

In both images, you can see the Hellmouth at the very bottom swallowing up the sinners and so on. One neat thing about "The Last Judgement" is that over on the right side towards the bottom (the lower of the two semi-circles) William de Brailles drew himself being saved by an angel.

Part of the requirements for this paper is that I avoid using Internet sites for information (which is fine by me, considering they are completely WORTHLESS when it comes to this stuff! Grr!) unless they're extremely credible, like museum websites and so on. This has resulted in some interesting MLA formatting challenges. I've e-mailed some former teachers already for any advice on the proper formatting of this source...it's an article by one author from an anthology edited by two editors. Oh yeah...it was printed in The Netherlands. Here's how I currently have it formatted (except with indented lines after the first)...if any of you have advice as to whether this is right, wrong, otherwise PLEASE let me know!

Randall, Lilian M.C. "En Route to Salvation with William de Brailes." Medieval Codicology, Iconography, Literature, and Translation: Studies for Keith Val Sinclair. Ed. Peter Rolfe Monks and D.D.R. Owen. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1994. 83-93.