Visions of the end : apocalyptic traditions in the Middle Ages /

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Other Authors: McGinn, Bernard, 1937-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 1998.
Edition:Pbk. ed. /
Series:Records of civilization, sources and studies ; no. 96.
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Table of Contents:
  • The tiburtine Sibyl
  • Antichrist in the fifth century
  • The legend of Alexander
  • Pseudo-Ephraem
  • Gregory the great
  • Byzantine apocalyptic
  • Pseudo-methodius
  • Beatus of Liébana
  • Muspilli
  • Adso's Letter on the Antichrist
  • Apocalyptic and non-apocalyptic themes of the eleventh century
  • Apocalypticism and the great reform
  • Gerhoh of Reichersberg
  • The ages of the church
  • Imperial apocalyptic
  • The Erythraean Sibyl
  • Joachim of Fiore
  • Moslems, Mongols, and the last days
  • The Joachite movement before 1260
  • Frederick II vs. the papacy
  • Merlin, the British seer.
  • The angelic pope
  • Bonaventure's apocalyptic theology of history
  • The Franciscan spirituals
  • Arnald of Villanova
  • Fra Dolcino and the apostolic brethren
  • John of Rupescissa
  • The Fraticelli
  • Rome and Avignon during the captivity
  • Political prophecies: French versus German imperial legends
  • Apocalypticism, the great schism, and the conciliar movement
  • The Hussite movement
  • Germany on the eve of the reformation
  • Savonarola and late medieval Italian apocalypticism
  • Christopher Columbus.