Millenarianism and messianism in early modern European culture.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 173-176.

Archives internationales d'histoire des idées = International archives of the history of ideas ; 173-176

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Millennialism--Europe--Congresses.

Millennialism.

Messianism--Europe--Congresses.

Messianism.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

4 volumes ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer, 2001.

Summary:

This volume brings together ten essays by leading scholars about Jewish messianic ideas and movements in the early modern world. While much of the previous literature in this field has focused on the internal dynamics of Jewish thought, these essays stress the broader historical and philosophical context. The papers deal with such topics as messianic ideology in the wake of the Spanish Expulsion, messianism and Renaissance philosophy, the Sabbatean movement and its impact on Christian thought, messianism and conversion, the relationship of Christian kabbalists to Jewish messianic ideas, the Frankist movement, and Freemasonry. As a group, the essays here represent a challenge to Gershom Scholem's reading of Jewish messianism in this era, offering a rich tapestry of relationships between the religious imagination of Jews and that of their neighbors. Scholars and students of early modern history, eschatology and religion will find much food for thought here.

Contents:

v.1. Jewish messianism in the early modern world / edited by Matt D. Goldish and Richard H. Popkin

v.2. Catholic millenarianism : from Savonarola to the Abbé Grégoire / edited by Karl A. Kottman

v.3. The millenarian turn : millenarian contexts of science, politics and everyday Anglo-American life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / edited by James E. Force and Richard H. Popkin

v.4. Continental millenarians : Protestants, Catholics, heretics / edited by John Christian Laursen and Richard H. Popkin.

Notes:

Conference proceedings.

Introd. to the set appears at the beginning of each volume.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

0792369343

0792368509

0792368495

0792368487

0792368479

OCLC:

50661637