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Title:

The apocalyptic year 1000 : religious expectation and social change, 950-1050 / edited by Richard Landes, Andrew Gow, and David C. Van Meter.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

xiv, 360 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Second Advent--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.
Christianity and culture--Europe--Congresses.
One thousand, A.D.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Landes, Richard Allen.
Gow, Andrew Colin.
Van Meter, David C.

Notes:

Papers delivered at a conference held at the end of 1996. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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 -- pt. 4. 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.

ISBN:

9780195161625 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195161629 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780195111910 (alk. paper)
0195111915 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50982266
(OCoLC)52885531

LCCN:

2002042550

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)