A companion to the premodern Apocalypse /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2016]
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| Series: | Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ;
volume 64. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a companion to the premodern apocalypse
- Part 1: The apocalypse in premodern society and imagery. Medieval illustrated apocalypse manuscripts ; Jewish apocalypticism: an historiography ; The Western apocalypse commentary tradition of the early Middle Ages ; Apocalyptic as a new mental paradigm of the Middle Ages ; Prolepsis and anticipation: the apocalyptic futurity of the now, East and West
- Part 2. The apocalypse within premodern Europe. Muspilli: old High German Judgment Day ; Apocalyptic thought in medieval German historiography: Otto of Freising and beyond ; Apocalyptic violence and revolutionary action: Thomas Müntzer's Sermon to the princes ; The apocalypse in medieval England ; "Earth and sky will be ablaze": the apocalypse, Hell, and judgment in pre-modern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany ; Revising the Revelation: early modern appropriations of medieval apocalypticism.