New PDF release: The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages

By James Palmer

ISBN-10: 1107085446

ISBN-13: 9781107085442

ISBN-10: 110744909X

ISBN-13: 9781107449091

This groundbreaking examine finds the precise impression of apocalyptic rules approximately time, evil and gear on church and society within the Latin West, c.400–c.1050. Drawing on proof from past due antiquity, the Frankish kingdoms, Anglo-Saxon England, Spain and Byzantium and sociological versions, James Palmer indicates that apocalyptic proposal used to be a extra strong a part of mainstream political ideologies and non secular reform than many historians think. relocating past the normal 'Terrors of the yr 1000', The Apocalypse within the Early heart a long time opens up broader views on heresy, the Antichrist and final international Emperor legends, chronography, and the connection among eschatology and apocalypticism. within the procedure, it bargains reassessments of the worlds of Augustine, Gregory of excursions, Bede, Charlemagne and the Ottonians, supplying a wide-ranging and updated survey of medieval apocalyptic idea. this is often the 1st full-length English-language therapy of a basic and debatable a part of medieval faith and society.

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