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The apocalyptic year 1000 : religious expectation and social change, 950-1050

Author: Richard Allen Landes; Andrew Colin Gow; David C Van Meter
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Allen Landes; Andrew Colin Gow; David C Van Meter
ISBN: 0195111915 9780195111910 0195161629 9780195161625
OCLC Number: 50982266
Notes: Papers delivered at a conference held at the end of 1996.
Description: xiv, 360 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: The Terribles espoirs of 1000 and the tacit fears of 2000 / Richard Landes -- Awaiting the end of time around the turn of the year 1000 / Johannes Fried -- The apocalyptic year 1000 in medieval thought. Stalking the signs : the apocalyptic commentaries / Guy Lobrichon -- Adso of Montier-en-Der and the fear of the year 1000 / Daniel Verhelst -- Thietland's commentary on Second Thessalonians : digressions on the antichrist and the end of the millennium / Steven R. Cartwright -- Avarice and the apocalypse / Richard Newhauser -- Waiting for the millennium / Umberto Eco -- The apocalyptic year 1000 in medieval art and literature. Apocalypse and last judgment around the year 1000 / Yves Christe -- The millennium, time, and history for the Anglo-Saxons / Malcolm Godden -- The cult of St. Michael the archangel and the "terrors of the year 1000" / Daniel F. Callahan -- Eschatology, millenarian apocalypticism, and the liturgical anti-Judaism of the medieval prophet plays / Regula Meyer Evitt -- Visualizing the millennium : eschatological rhetoric for the Ottonian court / Susan E. von Daum Tholl -- Historiography of the apocalyptic year 1000. The fear of an apocalyptic year 1000 : Augustinian historiography, medieval and modern / Richard Landes -- Eschatological imagination and the program of Roman imperial and ecclesiastical renewal at the end of the tenth century / Benjamin Arnold -- "Satan's bonds are extremely loose" : apocalyptic expectation in Anglo-Saxon England during the millennial era / William Prideaux-Collins -- Apocalyptic moments and the eschatological rhetoric of reform in the early eleventh century : the case of the visionary of St. Vaast / David C. Van Meter -- Tools and sources. The astronomical situation around the year 1000 / Bradley E. Schaefer -- Selected documents on eschatological expectations and social change around the year 1000 / David C. Van Meter.
Responsibility: edited by Richard Landes, Andrew Gow, and David C. Van Meter.
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