The end of the world in medieval thought and spirituality

Author(s)

• Knibbs, Eric
• Boon, Jessica A.
• Gelser, Erica

Bibliographic Information

The end of the world in medieval thought and spirituality

Eric Knibbs, Jessica A. Boon, Erica Gelser, editors

（The new Middle Ages）

Palgrave Macmillan, c2019

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-371) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This essay collection studies the Apocalypse and the end of the world, as these themes occupied the minds of biblical scholars, theologians, and ordinary people in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Early Modernity. It opens with an innovative series of studies on "Gendering the Apocalypse," devoted to the texts and contexts of the apocalyptic through the lens of gender. A second section of essays studies the more traditional problem of "Apocalyptic Theory and Exegesis," with a focus on authors such as Augustine of Hippo and Joachim of Fiore. A final series of essays extends the thematic scope to "The Eschaton in Political, Liturgical, and Literary Contexts." In these essays, scholars of history, theology, and literature create a dialogue that considers how fear of the end of the world, among the most pervasive emotions in human experience, underlies a great part of Western cultural production.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Jessica A. Boon and Eric Knibbs Part One: Gendering the Apocalypse 2. The Sobered Sibyl: Gender, Apocalypse and Hair in Dio Chrysostom's Discourse 1 and the Shepherd of Hermas, Mary R. D'Angelo 3. The Marian Apocalyptic of a Visionary Preacher: The Conorte of Juana de la Cruz, 1481-1534, Jessica A. Boon 4. The City Coming Down Out of Heaven (Rev. 21:10): Bologna as Jerusalem, Gabriella Zarri Part Two: Apocalyptic Theology and Exegesis 5. Risen to Judgment: What Augustine Saw, Francine Cardman 6. Berengaudus on the Apocalypse, Eric Knibbs 7. Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Joachim of Fiore's Expositio in Apocalypsim, Bernard McGinn 8. Juan de Horozco y Covarrubias's Tratado dela verdadera y falsa prophecia (1588) and the Influence of Medieval Apocalyptic Traditions in Post-Tridentine Spain, James F. Melvin Part Three: The Eschaton in Political, Liturgical, and Literary Contexts 9. The End of the World as They Knew it? Jews, Christians, Samaritans and Endtime Speculation in the Fifth-Century, Ross S. Kraemer 10. End Time at Hand: Innocent III, Joachim of Fiore, and the Fourth Crusade, Marcia L. Colish 11. The End of a Single World: The Sacrament of Extreme Unction in Scholastic Thought, Lesley Smith 12. Amorous and Religious "Apocalypses" in John Donne's Metaphysical Imagination, Angela Locatelli

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Details

• NCID: BC12530189
• ISBN:
  • 9783030149642
• Country Code: sz
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cham
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 380 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 236.9
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : End of the world -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
  • LCSH : End of the world -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
  • LCSH : End of the world in art
  • LCSH : End of the world in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA37580138