The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950-1050Richard Landes, Richard Allen Landes, Andrew Colin Gow, David C. Van Meter Oxford University Press, 2003 - 360 pages The essays in this book challenge prevailing views on the way in which apocalyptic concerns contributed to larger processes of social change at the first millennium. Several basic questions unify the essays: What chronological and theological assumptions underlay apocalyptic and millennial speculations around the Year 1000? How broadly disseminated were those speculations? Can we speak of a mentality of apocalyptic hopes and anxieties on the eve of the millennium? If so, how did authorities respond to or even contribute to the formation of this mentality? What were the social ramifications of apocalyptic hopes and anxieties, and of any efforts to suppress or redirect the more radical impulses that bred them? How did contemporaries conceptualize and then historicize the passing of the millennial date of 1000? Including the work of British, French, German, Dutch, and American scholars, this book will be the definitive resource on this fascinating topic, and should at the same time provoke new interest in and debate on the nature and causes of social change in early medieval Europe. |
Contents
Awaiting the End of Time around the Turn of the Year 1000 Johannes Fried | 17 |
The Apocalyptic Year 1000 in Medieval Thought | 67 |
Adso of MontierenDer and the Fear of the Year 1000 Daniel Verhelst | 81 |
Thietlands Commentary on Second Thessalonians Digressions on the Antichrist and the End of the Millennium Steven R Cartwright | 93 |
Avarice and the Apocalypse Richard Newhauser | 109 |
Waiting for the Millennium Umberto Eco | 121 |
The Apocalyptic Year 1000 in Medieval Art and Literature | 139 |
The Millennium Time and History for the AngloSaxons Malcolm Godden | 155 |
Visualizing the Millennium Eschatological Rhetoric for the Ottoman Court Susan E von Daum Tholl | 231 |
Historiography of the Apocalyptic Year 1000 | 243 |
Eschatological Imagination and the Program of Roman Imperial and Ecclesiastical Renewal at the End of the Tenth Century Benjamin Arnold | 271 |
Satans Bonds Are Extremely Loose Apocalyptic Expectation in AngloSaxon England during the Millennial Era William PrideauxCollins | 289 |
Apocalyptic Moments and the Eschatological Rhetoric of Reform in the Early Eleventh Century The Case of the Visionary of St Vaast David C Van ... | 311 |
Tools and Sources | 329 |
Selected Documents on Eschatological Expectations and Social Change around the Year 1000 David C Van Meter | 337 |
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The Cult of St Michael the Archangel and the Terrors of the Year 1000 Daniel F Callahan | 181 |
Eschatology Millenarian Apocalypticism and the Liturgical AntiJudaism of the Medieval Prophet Plays Regula Meyer Evitt | 205 |
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