A companion to popular apocalypticism in the high and late Middle Ages edited by Sally M. Brasher

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brasher, Sally Mayall, 1961- editor.

Series:

Brill's companions to the Christian tradition : a series of handbooks and reference works on the intellectual and religious life of Europe, 500-1800 1871-6377 volume 108

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

End of the world--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

End of the world.

Eschatology--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Eschatology.

Millennialism--Europe--History--To 1500.

Millennialism.

Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism.

Apocalyptic literature.

Civilization, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston Brill [2025]

Summary:

"The many crises of the high and late Middle Ages in Europe saw a resurgence of interest in apocalypticism and millenarianism. Pious Christians who feared the coming judgement day but found the established Church lacking in an adequate response, sought out leadership and direction from thinkers who appealed to their lived experience. In this volume, we examine how this eschatology was interpreted, expressed, and disseminated in popular culture by a variety of lay religious movements and individuals such as the Order of Apostles, Bianchi, Guglielmites, Wycliffites, and Hussites among others. The authors here focus on how this creative response to apocalypticism reflected the changing social and political culture of medieval Europeans and is intended to illuminate the active exchange of popular and elite religious culture in the era. Contributors include: Sally M. Brasher, Steven A. Hackbarth, Eleanor Janega, Stephen Lahey, Richard Landes, Alexandra R.A. Lee, Lucie Mazalová, Jerry B. Pierce, and Sergio Sancho Fibla"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

The apocalyptic year thousand : demotic religiosity and the birth of Europe / Richard Landes

Antichrist in Prague / Eleanor Janega

Apocalypticism in Bohemia after 1400 : violence and the Eschaton / Stephen Lahey and Lucie Mazalová

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Other Format:

Print version Companion to popular apocalypticism in the high and late Middle Ages

ISBN:

9789004527140

9004527141

OCLC:

1512330120

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