Visions of the end : apocalyptic traditions in the Middle Ages /

Visions of the end : apocalyptic traditions in the Middle Ages / [print] edited by] Bernard McGinn ; with a new preface and expanded bibliography. - New York : Columbia University Press, (c)1998. - xxvii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Number 96 of the records of civilization, sources and studies . - Records of civilization, sources and studies ; no. 96. .



The tiburtine Sibyl -- Antichrist in the fifth century -- The legend of Alexander -- Pseudo-Ephraem -- Gregory the great -- Byzantine apocalyptic -- Pseudo-methodius -- Beatus of Liebana -- Muspilli -- Adso's Letter on the Antichrist -- Apocalyptic and non-apocalyptic themes of the eleventh century -- Apocalypticism and the great reform -- Gerhoh of Reichersberg -- The ages of the church -- Imperial apocalyptic -- The Erythraean Sibyl -- Joachim of Fiore -- Moslems, Mongols, and the last days -- The Joachite movement before 1260 -- Frederick II vs. the papacy -- Merlin, the British seer The angelic pope -- Bonaventure's apocalyptic theology of history -- The Franciscan spirituals -- Arnald of Villanova -- Fra Dolcino and the apostolic brethren -- John of Rupescissa -- The Fraticelli -- Rome and Avignon during the captivity -- Political prophecies: French versus German imperial legends -- Apocalypticism, the great schism, and the conciliar movement -- The Hussite movement -- Germany on the eve of the reformation -- Savonarola and late medieval Italian apocalypticism -- Christopher Columbus.



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End of the world--History of doctrines.
Millennium (Eschatology)--History of doctrines.
Apocalyptic literature.
Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

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