Introduction: a companion to the premodern apocalypse -- Part 1: The apocalypse in premodern society and imagery. Medieval illustrated apocalypse manuscripts ; Jewish apocalypticism: an historiography ; The Western apocalypse commentary tradition of the early Middle Ages ; Apocalyptic as a new mental paradigm of the Middle Ages ; Prolepsis and anticipation: the apocalyptic futurity of the now, East and West -- Part 2. The apocalypse within premodern Europe. Muspilli: old High German Judgment Day ; Apocalyptic thought in medieval German historiography: Otto of Freising and beyond ; Apocalyptic violence and revolutionary action: Thomas Müntzer's Sermon to the princes ; The apocalypse in medieval England ; "Earth and sky will be ablaze": the apocalypse, Hell, and judgment in pre-modern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany ; Revising the Revelation: early modern appropriations of medieval apocalypticism.
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Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 1871-6377 ; volume 64
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