The apocalyptic year 1000 : religious expectation and social change, 950-1050 / edited by Richard Landes, Andrew Gow, David C. Van Meter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Landes, Richard, 1949-

Gow, Andrew Colin.

Van Meter, David C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second Advent--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.

Second Advent.

Christianity and culture--Europe--Congresses.

Christianity and culture.

One thousand, A.D--Congresses.

One thousand, A.D.

Second Advent--History of doctrines.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 360 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: The Terribles espoirs of 1000 and the tacit fears of 2000 / Richard Landes ; Awaiting the end of time around the turn of the year 1000 / Johannes Fried

Pt. 1. The apocalyptic year 1000 in medieval thought. Stalking the signs: the apocalyptic commentaries / Guy Lobrichon ; Adso of Montier-en-Der and the fear of the year 1000 / Daniel Verhelst ; Thietland's commentary on Second Thessalonians: digressions on the antichrist and the end of the millennium / Steven R. Cartwright ; Avarice and the apocalypse / Richard Newhauser ; Waiting for the millennium / Umberto Eco

Pt. 2. The apocalyptic year 1000 in medieval art and literature. Apocalypse and last judgment around the year 1000 / Yves Christe ; The millennium, time, and history for the Anglo-Saxons / Malcolm Godden ; The cult of St. Michael the archangel and the "terrors of the year 1000" / Daniel F. Callahan ; Eschatology, millenarian apocalypticism, and the liturgical anti-Judaism of the medieval prophet plays / Regula Meyer Evitt ; Visualizing the millennium: eschatological rhetoric for the Ottonian court / Susan E. von Daum Tholl

Pt. 3. Historiography of the apocalyptic year 1000. The fear of an apocalyptic year 1000: Augustinian historiography, medieval and modern / Richard Landes ; Eschatological imagination and the program of Roman imperial and ecclesiastical renewal at the end of the tenth century / Benjamin Arnold ; "Satan's bonds are extremely loose": apocalyptic expectation in Anglo-Saxon England during the millennial era / William Prideaux-Collins ; Apocalyptic moments and the eschatological rhetoric of reform in the early eleventh century: the case of the visionary of St. Vaast / David C. Van Meter

Pt. 4. Tools and sources. The astronomical situation around the year 1000 / Bradley E. Schaefer ; Selected documents on eschatological expectations and social change around the year 1000 / David C. Van Meter.

Notes:

Papers delivered at a conference held at the end of 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195111915

0195161629

OCLC:

50982266