Apocalyptic cultures in Medieval and Renaissance Europe : politics and prophecy / edited by Jay Rubenstein and Robert Bast.
| Other author | Rubenstein, Jay, 1967- editor. |
| Other author | Bast, Robert J., 1959- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2024] |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | 301 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Interdisciplinary studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Interdisciplinary studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; v. 3. ^A1468544 |
| Contents | Introduction. Apocalypse and Politics, in the Middle Ages and Today / Jay Rubenstein -- Constantine and the Birth of Medieval Apocalypticism: Imperial Eschatology in Eusebius, Lactantius, Ephrem, Aphrahat, and the Tiburtine Sybil / Stephen J. Shoemaker -- The Apocalypse and the Medieval Cosmos / Brett Edward Whalen -- Apocalypse Unfurled: Origins and End Times in the Genealogical Roll / Jennifer Jahner -- Prophetic Geography: Italy, the School of Joachim of Fiore, and the New Philistines / Thomas Maurer -- The Apocalypse of the Duc de Berry and the Apocalyptic Great Schism / Richard K. Emmerson -- The Eschatology of Pilgrimage Literature and the Gender of the Apocalypse in Late Medieval Europe / Kathryne Beebe -- Reading the End in Late Medieval Augsburg: Wolfgang Aytinger's Commentary on the Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius / Laura Ackerman Smoller -- Prophecy and Policy: Maximilian I as Last World Emperor in Theory and Practice / Robert J. Bast -- The Apocalyptic 'Other': Nostos, Gog and Magog, and Revelation in the Time of COVID / Colin McAllister. |
| Abstract | "The essays in this collection were presented at the 2020 Symposium on Apocalypticism, sponsored by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee. The authors offer new readings of medieval and Renaissance Apocalypticism in quotidian terms, not as 'counterculture' but as the pragmatic expression of spiritualities that informed both debate and practice, on subjects as mundane and diverse as warfare, pilgrimage, gender, cartography, environmentalism, and governance. Topics include the origins of imperial eschatology; reflections on cosmology and the fate of the earth; the fusion of history, prophecy, and genealogy; Joachite readings of the political landscape of Italy; the influence of the Great Schism on Burgundian art; eschatology and gender in pilgrimage literature; the late medieval interpretation of the Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius; and the appropriation of apocalyptic tropes in the propaganda and policies of the German emperor Maximilian I. The essays that open and close this collection offer meditations on the enduring legacy of Apocalypticism by focusing on the events -- pandemic, political unrest, and the proliferation of conspiracy theories manifest in both -- that mark the historical era in which this symposium took place."-- Publisher's website. |
| General note | "Offers new readings of medieval and Renaissance Apocalypticism as the expression of spiritualities that informed both debate and practice, covering subjects as diverse as warfare, pilgrimage, gender, cartography, environmentalism, and governance. From papers presented at the 2020 Symposium, 'Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Cultures in Medieval and Renaissance Europe' (Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee)."--Publisher's website. |
| General note | "[The conference had been] originally planned in conjunction with an exhibition entitled 'Visions of the End', to be held at the McClung Museum of Natural History on the University of Tennessee Campus. Due to the pandemic, these two events did not occur simaltaneously ... but they did both occur and as such have left the editors with much gratitude needing to be expressed to many people and organiztions."--Acknowledgements, page 11, |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | 9782503606705 e-book version |
| Other title | Visions of the end. |
| ISBN | 9782503606699 |
| ISBN | 2503606695 |