Apocalypse and reform from late antiquity to the Middle Ages / edited by Matthew Gabriele and James T. Palmer.

Other author Gabriele, Matthew editor.
Other author Palmer, James T. (James Trevor) editor.
Format Electronic
PublicationAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Description1 online resource
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
Subjects
Civilization, Medieval.
End of the world--History of doctrines. --Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Eschatology--History of doctrines. --Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Contents Introduction: the beginning of the end / Matthew Gabriele and James Palmer -- The Chronicle of Hydatius of Chavez: a historical guidebook to the last days of the western Roman Empire / Veronika Wieser -- To be found prepared: eschatology and reform rhetoric c. 570-c. 640 / James T. Palmer -- The final countdown and the reform of the liturgical calendar in the early Middle Ages / Immo Warntjes -- Apocalypse and reform in Bede's De die iudicii / Peter Darby -- Creating futures through the lens of revelation in the rhetoric of the Carolingian reform c. 750 to c. 900 / Miriam Czock -- Eschatology and reform in early Irish law: the evidence of Sunday legislation / Elizabeth Boyle -- Apocalypse, eschatology and the interim in England and Byzantium in the tenth and eleventh centuries / Helen Foxhall Forbes -- Apocalypticism and the rhetoric of reform in Italy around the year 1000 / Levi Roach -- This time. maybe this time. biblical commentary, monastic historiography, and lost cause-ism at the turn of the first millennium / Matthew Gabriele -- Against the silence: twelfth-century Augustinian reformers confront apocalypse / Jehangir Y. Malegam -- Afterword / Jay Rubenstein.
Summary Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages provides a range of perspectives on what reformist apocalypticism meant for the formation of Medieval Europe, from the Fall of Rome to the twelfth century. It explores and challenges accepted narratives about both the development of apocalyptic thought and the way it intersected with cultures of reform to influence major transformations in the medieval world. Bringing together a wealth of knowledge from academics in Britain, Europe and the USA this book offers the latest scholarship in apocalypse studies. It consolidates a paradigm shift, away from seeing apocalypse as a radical force for a suppressed minority, and towards a fuller understanding of apocalypse as a mainstream cultural force in history. Together, the chapters and case studies capture and contextualise the variety of ideas present across Europe in the Middle Ages and set out points for further comparative study of apocalypse across time and space. Offering new perspectives on what ideas of 'reform' and 'apocalypse' meant in Medieval Europe, Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages provides students with the ideal introduction to the study of apocalypse during this period.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Apocalypse and reform from late antiquity to the Middle Ages. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018 9781138684027
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