[PDF] Expecting The End Of The World In Medieval Europe eBook

Author : Israel Sanmartín
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2024-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1040115918

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Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspective, both geographically and intellectually. The collected contributions analyze texts, authors, social movements, and cultural representations covering a wide period, from the 6th to the 16th century, in geographically liminal spaces where Catholic, Byzantine, Islamic, and Jewish cultures converged. The book is organized in eleven chapters which reflect and explore the following arguments: the study of specific eschatological episodes in medieval Europe and their interpretations; the analysis of apocalyptic visionaries, apocalyptic authors, and their individual contributions; the social and political implications of eschatology in medieval society; the study of medieval apocalyptic literature from a rhetorical, narratological, and historiographical perspective; the history of the transmission of apocalyptic literature and its transformation over time; and a comparative examination of apocalypticism between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era. This study provides a lens through which academics, specialists, and interested researchers can observe and reflect on this entire eschatological universe, dwelling both on well-known texts, authors, and events, and on others which are much less popular. In gathering different paradigms, tools, and theoretical frameworks, the book exposes readers to the complex reality of medieval anxiety regarding the end of the world.

Author : Eric Knibbs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2019-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 303014965X

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This essay collection studies the Apocalypse and the end of the world, as these themes occupied the minds of biblical scholars, theologians, and ordinary people in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Early Modernity. It opens with an innovative series of studies on “Gendering the Apocalypse,” devoted to the texts and contexts of the apocalyptic through the lens of gender. A second section of essays studies the more traditional problem of “Apocalyptic Theory and Exegesis,” with a focus on authors such as Augustine of Hippo and Joachim of Fiore. A final series of essays extends the thematic scope to “The Eschaton in Political, Liturgical, and Literary Contexts.” In these essays, scholars of history, theology, and literature create a dialogue that considers how fear of the end of the world, among the most pervasive emotions in human experience, underlies a great part of Western cultural production.

Author : Tsvetelin Stepanov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 35,5 MB
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9004409939

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In Waiting for the End of the World: European Dimensions, 950–1200, Tsvetelin Stepanov offers a fresh, pan-European, look at a phenomenon that was typical not only for the Christians, but also for the other two monotheistic religions in Europe.

Author : Matthias Heiduk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 3110499770

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Two opposing views of the future in the Middle Ages dominate recent historical scholarship. According to one opinion, medieval societies were expecting the near end of the world and therefore had no concept of the future. According to the other opinion, the expectation of the near end created a drive to change the world for the better and thus for innovation. Close inspection of the history of prognostication reveals the continuous attempts and multifold methods to recognize and interpret God’s will, the prodigies of nature, and the patterns of time. That proves, on the one hand, the constant human uncertainty facing the contingencies of the future. On the other hand, it demonstrates the firm believe during the Middle Ages in a future which could be shaped and even manipulated. The handbook provides the first overview of current historical research on medieval prognostication. It considers the entangled influences and transmissions between Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and non-monotheistic societies during the period from a wide range of perspectives. An international team of 63 renowned authors from about a dozen different academic disciplines contributed to this comprehensive overview.

Author : Richard Kenneth Emmerson
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780801422829

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An innovative overview of the influence of the Apocalypse on the shaping of the Christian culture of the Middle Ages.

Author : Matthew Gabriele
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0429950411

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Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages provides a range of perspectives on what reformist apocalypticism meant for the formation of Medieval Europe, from the Fall of Rome to the twelfth century. It explores and challenges accepted narratives about both the development of apocalyptic thought and the way it intersected with cultures of reform to influence major transformations in the medieval world. Bringing together a wealth of knowledge from academics in Britain, Europe and the USA this book offers the latest scholarship in apocalypse studies. It consolidates a paradigm shift, away from seeing apocalypse as a radical force for a suppressed minority, and towards a fuller understanding of apocalypse as a mainstream cultural force in history. Together, the chapters and case studies capture and contextualise the variety of ideas present across Europe in the Middle Ages and set out points for further comparative study of apocalypse across time and space. Offering new perspectives on what ideas of ‘reform’ and ‘apocalypse’ meant in Medieval Europe, Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages provides students with the ideal introduction to the study of apocalypse during this period.

Author : Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217020

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Eleven essays that focus on the competing eschatologies of the Middle Ages.

Author : James Palmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 131619549X

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This groundbreaking study reveals the distinctive impact of apocalyptic ideas about time, evil and power on church and society in the Latin West, c.400–c.1050. Drawing on evidence from late antiquity, the Frankish kingdoms, Anglo-Saxon England, Spain and Byzantium and sociological models, James Palmer shows that apocalyptic thought was a more powerful part of mainstream political ideologies and religious reform than many historians believe. Moving beyond the standard 'Terrors of the Year 1000', The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages opens up broader perspectives on heresy, the Antichrist and Last World Emperor legends, chronography, and the relationship between eschatology and apocalypticism. In the process, it offers reassessments of the worlds of Augustine, Gregory of Tours, Bede, Charlemagne and the Ottonians, providing a wide-ranging and up-to-date survey of medieval apocalyptic thought. This is the first full-length English-language treatment of a fundamental and controversial part of medieval religion and society.

Author : Tsvetelin Stepanov
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 9789004343931

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In Waiting for the End of the World: European Dimensions, 950-1200, Tsvetelin Stepanov offers a fresh, pan-European, look at a phenomenon that was typical not only for the Christians, but also for the other two monotheistic religions in Europe.

Author : Clifford R. Backman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,57 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 9780199372294

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Deftly written and beautifully illustrated, The Worlds of Medieval Europe, Third Edition, presents a distinctive and nuanced portrayal of the Greater West during its medieval millennium. By integrating the histories of the Islamic and Byzantine worlds into the main narrative, author Clifford R. Backman offers an insightful, detailed, and often witty look at the continuum of interaction--social, cultural, intellectual, and commercial--that existed among all three societies. This compelling volume surpasses traditional textbook representations of the Middle Ages by balancing the conventional focus on political affairs, especially those of northern Europe, with equally detailed attention to medieval society as it developed in the Mediterranean. In addition, Backman describes the ways in which the medieval Latin West attempted to understand the unified and rational structure of the human cosmos, which they believed existed beneath the observable diversity and disorder of the world. This effort to recreate a human ordering of "unity through diversity" provides an essential key to understanding medieval Europe and the ways in which it regarded and reacted to the worlds around it.