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  • Tony Wilmot Memorial Library

The apocalyptic year 1000

The apocalyptic year 1000 religious expectation and social change, 950-1050 / [electronic resource] : edited by Richard Landes, Andrew Gow, and David C. Van Meter. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. - 1 online resource (xiv, 360 p.)

Papers delivered at a conference held at the end of 1996. Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Terribles espoirs of 1000 and the tacit fears of 2000 / Awaiting the end of time around the turn of the year 1000 / The apocalyptic year 1000 in medieval thought. Stalking the signs : the apocalyptic commentaries / Adso of Montier-en-Der and the fear of the year 1000 / Thietland's commentary on Second Thessalonians : digressions on the antichrist and the end of the millennium / Avarice and the apocalypse / Waiting for the millennium / The apocalyptic year 1000 in medieval art and literature. Apocalypse and last judgment around the year 1000 / The millennium, time, and history for the Anglo-Saxons / The cult of St. Michael the archangel and the "terrors of the year 1000" / Eschatology, millenarian apocalypticism, and the liturgical anti-Judaism of the medieval prophet plays / Visualizing the millennium : eschatological rhetoric for the Ottonian court / Historiography of the apocalyptic year 1000. The fear of an apocalyptic year 1000 : Augustinian historiography, medieval and modern / Eschatological imagination and the program of Roman imperial and ecclesiastical renewal at the end of the tenth century / "Satan's bonds are extremely loose" : apocalyptic expectation in Anglo-Saxon England during the millennial era / Apocalyptic moments and the eschatological rhetoric of reform in the early eleventh century : the case of the visionary of St. Vaast / Tools and sources. The astronomical situation around the year 1000 / Selected documents on eschatological expectations and social change around the year 1000 / Richard Landes -- Johannes Fried -- Guy Lobrichon -- Daniel Verhelst -- Steven R. Cartwright -- Richard Newhauser -- Umberto Eco -- Yves Christe -- Malcolm Godden -- Daniel F. Callahan -- Regula Meyer Evitt -- Susan E. von Daum Tholl -- Richard Landes -- Benjamin Arnold -- William Prideaux-Collins -- David C. Van Meter -- Bradley E. Schaefer -- David C. Van Meter.

1423757688 (electronic bk.) 9781423757689 (electronic bk.)

BT886.3 / .A66 2003eb

940.1/46