The pursuit of the millennium revolutionary millenarians and mystical anarchists of the Middle Ages
Title:
The pursuit of the millennium revolutionary millenarians and mystical anarchists of the Middle Ages
Author:
Cohn, Norman, 1915-2007.
ISBN:
9780198020028
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Edition:
Rev. and expanded ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, 1970.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (412 p.) : ill., port.
Contents:
Foreword; Introduction: The scope of this book; 1 The Tradition of Apocalyptic Prophecy; 2 The Tradition of Religious Dissent; 3 The Messianism of the Disoriented Poor; 4 The Saints Against the Hosts of Antichrist; 5 In the Backwash of the Crusades; 6 The Emperor Frederick as Messiah; 7 An Elite of Self-immolating Redeemers; 8 An Elite of Amoral Supermen (i); 9 An Elite of Amoral Supermen (ii); 10 The Egalitarian State of Nature; 11 The Egalitarian Millennium (i); 12 The Egalitarian Millennium (ii); 13 The Egalitarian Millennium (iii); Conclusion.
Abstract:
The end of the millennium has always held the world in fear of earthquakes, plague, and the catastrophic destruction of the world. At the dawn of the 21st millennium the world is still experiencing these anxieties, as seen by the onslaught of fantasies of renewal, doomsday predictions, and New Age prophecies. This fascinating book explores the millenarianism that flourished in western Europe between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. Covering the full range of revolutionary and anarchic sects and movements in medieval Europe, Cohn demonstrates how prophecies of a final struggle between the.
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