The Apocalyptic Year 1000 —— Religious Expectaton and Social Change, 950-1050

----- 世界末日1000年:宗教期待与社会变迁,950-1050

ISBN: 9780195111910 出版年:2011 页码:377 Oxford University Press

知识网络
知识图谱网络
内容简介

The essays in this book challenge prevailing views on the way in which apocalyptic concerns contributed to larger processes of social change at the first millennium. Several basic questions unify the essays: What chronological and theological assumptions underlay apocalyptic and millennial speculations around the Year 1000? How broadly disseminated were those speculations? Can we speak of a mentality of apocalyptic hopes and anxieties on the eve of the millennium? If so, how did authorities respond to or even contribute to the formation of this mentality? What were the social ramifications of apocalyptic hopes and anxieties, and of any efforts to suppress or redirect the more radical impulses that bred them? How did contemporaries conceptualize and then historicize the passing of the millennial date of 1000? Including the work of British, French, German, Dutch, and American scholars, this book will be the definitive resource on this fascinating topic, and should at the same time provoke new interest in and debate on the nature and causes of social change in early medieval Europe.

Amazon评论 {{comment.person}}

{{comment.content}}

作品图片
推荐图书